Revitalizing Literacy for Entrepreneurship among Nigerian University Students for National Growth

Abstract

The fast increasing rate of under-development in Nigeria as a result of nonchalant attitudes towards literacy and entrepreneurship by Nigerian students propelled this researcher to carry out this study. The study adopted a survey research type. The population for the study was all the Nigerian students from the North Central geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Stratified ransom sampling technique was used to select 30 students (15 males and 15 females) from each of the 25 universities in this zone. A twenty-item researcher-designed questionnaire (RDQ) was used for the purpose of collecting data. The content validity of the instrument was done by two experts while the reliability of the instrument was ascertained via test re-test statistical method, thus giving 0.58 reliability index. The three null hypotheses were tested using Pearson r statistical method at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings revealed that there are positive but low correlations between literacy and entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship and national development having computed calculated r-values of 0.289 and 0.299 which are greater than the critical r-value of .195 respectively at 0.05 alpha level of significance. However, there was positive and high correlation between literacy and national development having calculated r-value of 1.296 and critical r-value of .195 at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Based on these, it was concluded that national development is a result of intellectual work and an easy facilitator of intellectual development is in the art of literacy. As a result of the findings and conclusion of this study, it was recommended among other things that the Federal Government should entrench mass literacy and entrepreneurship education in schools curriculum and also put up a unit that would be vested with the responsibility of monitoring the full implementation of the mass literacy program and entrepreneurship education as well.

Keywords: Revitalizing Literacy in Nigeria, Entrepreneurship and Nigerian Students

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