Tackling Poverty in South-Eastern Nigeria, by growing Small & Medium Scale Vocational Enterprises
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Charles Uka
Abstract
With the rate of unemployment towering high in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, lack of business and managerial skills or knowledge as well as fear of the unknown have crippled youths from venturing into private businesses that could have encouraged self-employment. This paper focuses on tackling unemployment through vocational/entrepreneurship education as the way to get out of joblessness. It is in the light of this, that this paper examined the role and contributions of vocational education to employment generation in the five south-eastern states of Nigeria. It is obvious from the paper that youths found great value in skills acquisition believing that the fight against poverty cannot be won by just receiving money from rich people every day or every month, rather take from them wealth-job creating skills through vocational education for self-sustenance, because anybody who wants to be rich and productive rather than being fed and dependent must start his/her own business. At the end, the paper recommended among others that training and re-training vocational/entrepreneurial skills for youths especially those that have dropped-out-of formal employment or education be facilitated to banish hunger and poverty in the society.
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