Interrogating Entrepreneurship Development Programme and Graduate Unemployment in Kogi State

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has played a significant role to the socio-economic development of both developed and developing economy.  This is largely predominant in stimulating wealth creation and revenue generation through the informal sector.  This research titled: “Interrogating Entrepreneurship Development Programme and Graduate Unemployment in Kogi State” is written to evaluate the extent to which entrepreneurship development programme has curbed graduate unemployment in Kogi State and to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship development and skill acquisition.  The research elicits data from primary source while data were generated through the use of questionnaire.  More so, the paper adopted frequency and percentage in data analysis while the use of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used in testing hypotheses.  The paper concludes that entrepreneurship development has reduced graduate unemployment in Kogi State, North – Central Nigeria.  Thus, recommends that: government should encourage tertiary institution, vocational centres by providing them with adequate equipment for training programmes and there should be an institutional collaboration between the government and informal sector so that funding of entrepreneurship development programmes be improved while the decaying infrastructural facilities be revived to encourage entrepreneurship development programme as well as wealth creation.