NATIONAL STABILITY THROUGH YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN NIGERIA: ENTREPRENEURIAL COUNSELLING STRATEGIES

Chinonye E. Ugonna, Letitia C. Nwachukwu, Comfort C. Kalu, Ikechukwu A. Ugonna

Abstract


National stability and integration are essential for the survival of Nigeria as a country. The use of entrepreneurial counselling intervention as an instrument for empowering the youth has always been emphasized. In Nigeria, the youth constitute the bulk of the population which Awogbenle and Iwuamadi (2010) estimated about 60% of the total population of the country. The youth comprises all young males and females characterized with excess potential energy, strength and vigour that need to be tapped. These potentials if not properly channeled into useful venture will lead to antisocial behaviours like cultism, political thuggery, armed robbery, kidnapping as well as proliferation of ethno-regional, religious and social organizations/movements (agitations) that are major causes of national instability. To check youth restiveness and foster national stability and integration the paper focuses on entrepreneurial counselling intervention such as vocational guidance, career day, group counselling and community counselling to help empower Nigerian youth. Some of the recommendations include that parents, teachers as well as other stakeholders should provide the young ones with necessary skills needed for self-reliance so that they will contribute positively to national stability integration.

Keywords


National Stability, National Integration, Entrepreneurial Counselling, Youth Empowerment and Youth Restiveness

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