Entrepreneurial Skills Development: Stakeholders Response to the Challenges of Graduates’ Unemployment in Bauchi State

Ibrahim Abubakar Dawaki, Haruna Zaharaddeen, Ibrahim Umar

Abstract


The study examined the perception of stakeholders on entrepreneurship development as a panacea to Graduates' unemployment in Bauchi State, as well as the solution to major socio-economic problems bedevilling Nigeria’s development. The study was carried out in a descriptive survey design. This is a descriptive survey study as it seeks to investigate the perception of stakeholders on the graduates’ entrepreneurial skill acquisition development in reducing unemployment in Bauchi state. A total of 200 respondents were sampled for this study using stratified and systematic random sampling techniques. A validated questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents with a reliability coefficient of 0.85. Mean ratings were used to provide answers to the research question raised, while t-test and ANOVA were used to test the generated hypotheses at 0.05 level significance. The questionnaire was used as an instrument for data generation. It adopts a frequency/percentage table as a method of data analysis. It was concluded that entrepreneurship development is an efficient instrument in addressing Graduate unemployment in particular and promoting overall economic development in general. It also recommends that governments at all levels should be proactive in providing entrepreneurship programmes not only to Graduates but also at all levels of education in the country.


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