CITIZENSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Abstract

A saying goes thus: ?life is not a bed of roses?. This is a fact. If life is not a bed of roses, then entrepreneurship cannot be a tea party. It is a product of hard work of sleepless nights, being jack of all trades and master of all. Learning to start out early in the day and work till late night, and it takes being prepared to wait until the seed of your enterprise germinates grows up into fruits bearing tree and then harvest the fruits. A lot of people dream of becoming entrepreneur but have not really weighed the odds and counted the cost whether they can sustain the initial enthusiasm and endure till the seed planted begin to bring in fruitful harvest. This is the essence of citizen education for better entrepreneurship. Citizenship education helps in creating desirable social behaviours and skill in students in the light of some social problems which the society is trying to solve. The main trust of this paper is to define important concepts as they relate to the discuss, x-ray the challenge before the Nigeria Nation as regards unemployment of school leavers and the need to encourage skill oriented education.