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Entrepreneurship and Youth Development.

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Entrepreneurship is an ability to see opportunities in challenges and the ability to proffer solutions with an executive aim of making profit and job creation.  In a developing country like Nigeria with high population comes with abundant opportunities and challenges. Entrepreneurs are change makers, innovators, solution providers who sees challenges as opportunities.  Nigeria is estimated to be about two hundred million people, 70% young people are un-employed, 60% Nigerians living below poverty level. Owing to these findings, Nigeria is blessed with natural resources and manpower, agriculture seems to be the hope of many aspiring Entrepreneurs, the need to key into agriculture is very important  towards reducing un-employment and  hunger.  In 2015, the Nigerian government banned the importation of foreign rice in other to boost local production of rice  and other food production, this development rather plagued the entire country into severe hunger.  In 2019, the federal government f