EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, ENTREPRENEURIAL STIMULATION AND START-UPS IN NIGERIA
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Continuous increase in unemployment has negatively impacted the lives of Nigerians. The effect of COVID-
19 pandemic has made it worse- as many companies/employers keep laying off their staff continuously. If
the increasingly high unemployment rate is not urgently reversed, the consequences will be the prevalence
of crimes and criminality. Therefore motivating or stimulating people to be entrepreneurial and to set up new
businesses is vital for their emancipation and global economic sustainability. Meanwhile, many faith-based
organisations (FBOs) in Lagos have been engaging their members with entrepreneurial training programmes
to support government moves and in response to their members' economic challenges. The FBOs are driven
to partake in members' economic emancipation by promulgating trainings that are impactful to start
businesses. However, some factors have been underscored as the motivating influence for the trainees
starting businesses. Little is known about the influence of educational qualification in participation of
entrepreneurial training and entrepreneurial activities. Hence this study investigates the education
qualifications of participants in the entrepreneurial training programmes of selected FBOs towards business
start-ups. Out of 643 copies of the questionnaire distributed, 620 copies were retrieved, accounting for
96.4% response rate, which is considered adequate and appropriate for analysis. This study's data were
subjected to relevant statistical analysis, including descriptive statistics using SPSS version 25. Frequency
distribution and percentage analysis were used to present the educational background of the respondents.
Respondents with HND/BSc/BA qualification have the highest participation of 296 which accounts for about
47.6% in the entrepreneurial training programme. This is followed by respondents with OND/NCE
qualification with 163 and about 26.4%. Respondents with MSc/MA/MBA qualifications have 88, which is
about 14.2%. Respondents with SSCE qualifications' participation was 52 (8.4%). Trainees/graduates should
not be discouraged to continue with their higher educations because it gives room for better entrepreneurial
awareness that can lead to start-ups.
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AS Academies and learned societies (General), H Social Sciences (General), HF Commerce