Authors : I.G. Ozurumba, C.C.G. Echem, M.C. Okengwu, A.C. Ugwuoke, I.E. Umofia and V.A. Ifeanacho
Abstract: Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to affect any society positively. Entrepreneurship and adult education are identified as imperative and transformative tools for national development and poverty eradication in Nigeria. This is the key factor for increasing economic efficiency and social consistency by increasing the value and efficiency of the labour force and the basic instrument for poverty eradication. The paper, therefore, recommended that classroom work is basically theory. Undergraduate students should be mandated to go for apprenticeship training with a successful entrepreneur for at least a period of three months. This will help them to build confidence to take risk in career during and after graduation due to the desire to acquired entrepreneurial skills needed to succeed. The apprenticeship period of training may be during the long vacation period.
I.G. Ozurumba, C.C.G. Echem, M.C. Okengwu, A.C. Ugwuoke, I.E. Umofia and V.A. Ifeanacho, 2021. Entrepreneurship and Adult Education: A Panacea for Economic Emancipation and Development in Nigeria. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 16: 245-251.