Enhancing Human Capital Development and Economic Sustainability through Youth Empowerment Counselling

Yunusa Abejide Jimoh, Samuel Meseko, Samuel Meseko, Hussain Kehinde Garba

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This paper examines the issue of youth empowerment as an agent of human capital development and economic sustainability which serve as a catalyst for unemployment in Nigeria. The paper also examines the importance of empowering the youths in enhancing human capital development and sustaining the nation’s economy. Efforts have been made in this paper to show how youth empowerment counselling can help in enhancing human capital development and sustainable economy. It explored current literature on human capital and its impact on national development. Human capital is today considered as the most valuable asset and component of economic development at the organizational and national level. Useful suggestions and recommendations are made among which are government should intensify effort to establish youth empowerment centre in each local government across the federation with counselling services to keep youths out of street and provide them with employable skills and technical knowhow and counselling services should be made available in secondary schools across the nation to sensitize the students on empowerment education and skill acquisition.


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