Promoting popular participation for entrepreneurship and sustainable basic educational development in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper acknowledges the fact that education is fundamental and a must to national development; and as such, it
should be made accessible to all irrespective of sex, age, and socio-economic status among others. Resulting from
this therefore, there is the urgent need to promote people’s (Nigerians’) participation in sustainable
entrepreneurship through basic educational development required to empower recipients who will further contribute
to national development. The need for basic entrepreneurship education, the constraints of popular participation
and the guidelines for promoting it through the Nigerian educational enterprise were emphasized.