Gender, Sexuality Education And Entrepreneurial Skill Acquisition Of Youths In Nigeria

Entrepreneurial skills development programme design for youths have come among other things, part of the policy thrust of the Nigeria Government in order to promote self-employability and reducing high unemployment rate among youths. This study was conducted to determine the difference among youths who had sexuality education knowledge before acquiring entrepreneurial skill and youths who did not have sexuality education but acquire entrepreneurial skill in Nigeria. To guide the study, two objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated. The descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprise 151 million youths in Nigeria, 400 youths was obtained based on Taro Yamene Formula then multiply by 2 to have 800 youths for more generalization of the result of the Finding. Using accidental sampling technique. The research questionnaire designed and used for the study were subjected to reliability test on respondents and the data collected for the reliability were subjected to Cronbach Alpha reliability test, which yielded a coefficient of 0.80. Findings of the study show that there is different among youth who had creative and critical thinking skill based on sexuality education knowledge before acquiring entrepreneurial skill with youths who had not but acquired entrepreneurial skill. It is recommended that sexuality education should be introduce as a compulsory subject to study in both secondary and tertiary institutions to enable youths acquire salient information and skills on human sexuality and reproductive health

Gender, Sexuality Education, Skills, Entrepreneurial Skills

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