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ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

. Chidi Agu Mascot Uchenyi, Anastasia I. Ogbo, Emmanuel I. Agbaeze & Boniface Paul Otiala


Abstract

The study examined entrepreneurial education and economic wellbeing of internal displaced persons in North Central Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to: examine the extent to which technical skill acquisition effects food security of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria; ascertain the extent to which knowledge acquisition effects literacy rate of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria; determine the extent to which innovation skill acquisition effects income generation of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria; assess the extent to which opportunity recognition effects health-care accessibility of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria and identify the extent to which critical thinking skills effects house accommodation of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria. Research design was descriptive survey research. Study Area was North Central Nigeria. The sample size of 399 respondents taken from population of 1,302,443 internally displaced persons in 219,445 households across Benue, Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau and Federal Capital Territory. The study has structured questionnaire to obtain data. Research questions was answered using mean score and standard deviation. The hypotheses stated will be tested using single regression techniques. The empirical results showed that technical skill acquisition has significant effect on food security of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria (t-statistic; 6.446; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05); knowledge acquisition has significant effect on literacy rate of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria (t-statistic; 11.826; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05); innovation skill acquisition has significant effect on income generation of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria (t-statistic; 7.238; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05); opportunity recognition has significant effect on health-care accessibility of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria (t-statistic; 9.516; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05) and critical thinking skills have significant effect on house accommodation of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria (t-statistic; 5.806; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05). The study concluded that entrepreneurial education has positive and significant effect on economic wellbeing of internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria. The study recommended that there should be urgent need for Government to provide materials and well-furnished and equipped entrepreneurship centers for teaching technical skill acquisition in internally displaced persons camps in North Central Nigeria. And Centre for entrepreneurship education should be mandatorily established in all internally displaced persons in North Central Nigeria

 

Keywords: Entrepreneurial education, Economic wellbeing, Internally displaced persons, Entrepreneurship, Skill acquisition

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