GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship education was introduced into Nigeria educational system to provide the necessary skills, competence, and understanding and to prepare the learners to gain self-reliant attitude that will contribute to sustainable living in the country. This paper examines the use of entrepreneurial skills as an approach to cultivate the self-reliant attitudes in secondary school students through the development of entrepreneurial skills. Literature from eminent scholars have pointed out that students themselves need to possess certain traits such as passion, pro-activity, tenacity and hard work in order to acquire these entrepreneurial skills to encourage them actualize self-reliance. It is observed that when these personality traits are inculcated in students, they can possess qualities that would guarantee their self-reliant attitude and endure in learning new skills for sustainability. Hence, it was concluded that the effective implementation of entrepreneurship curriculum that will bridge the theoretical gap between business studies and other trade subjects taught in secondary schools to mitigate the learning crises that sabotage the performance of students. It was recommended among others that government through the Ministry of Education should endeavour to ensure that there is policies harmony for attaining higher productivity through entrepreneurial skills’ development in secondary schools in the study area.
KEYWORD: Entrepreneurial skills, self-reliant attitudes, learners, secondary schools, lifelong learning.