INDUSTRIALISTS

This research work evaluates the extent of development in Entrepreneurship in a depressed economy like Nigeria. A closer and pragmatic approach was used by using Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI) Enugu State Chapter. NASSI has been seen as one of the nation’s governmental agency involved in manpower development and training and financing small-scale industrialists. The objectives of the study are to critically analyze the activities of entrepreneurs in Enugu, in relation to the overall objective of government programmes and policies, to know how the efforts of government to develop entrepreneurship is progressing, to identify the problems that has been militating against the development of entrepreneurship in Enugu and Prefer solutions. It was found that the development of entrepreneurs is now taking a formal footing as a result of the increased rate of response by the average entrepreneur in Enugu. From the research, it was observed that about over a 3,000 (three thousand) persons have gotten various trainings Nigeria association of small-scale industrialists (NASSI).Consequently, the research solicits for NASSI to be more pragmatic in their operation vis-à-vis the decree of which they were established and then government in its own effort to try and create an enabling environment for entrepreneurship development. In this word Abraham Maslow (A psychologist known for his theories regarding human needs) “indicated that the most valuable 100 people to bring into deteriorating society would not be economists or politicians or engineer rather 100 entrepreneurs”.