NNEKA RAYMONDA OGBODO

Entrepreneurship has become an area of interest to many researchers, policy-makers, economists, academics and even university students are talking about it. Seminars, conferences and workshops are being organized every year across the world with emphasis on the importance of any entrepreneurship to country, society as well as individual development. Today, entrepreneurship is regarded as one of the best economic development strategies which improves the country’ s competitiveness in the face of the increasing trends of globalisation. For most people, the popularity of entrepreneurship is largely due to the positive effects it has on many countries as a catalyst that creates wealth and the generation of job opportunities. As a result of this, this study investigated the factors that influences entrepreneurial intentions among young people in Nigeria. In order to achieve this, a descriptive survey research design was used in eliciting response gotten from respondents. A structured questionnaire was administered to collect data from students of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management Science, University of Benin. While the sample size was restricted to 218 students from the Department. The collected data was analyzed using the simple percentage table. In the findings, it was revealed that creativity to entrepreneurial learning influence on entrepreneurial learning among young people in Nigeria. It was also revealed that Tertiary institution promotes entrepreneurship intention among young people in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommends that that education about entrepreneurship and for entrepreneurship will increase students’ interest in becoming entrepreneurs at some stage after graduation. It was also recommended that graduates entrepreneurial intention can be further increased and sustained through: the adoption of entrepreneurial learning as entrepreneurship development approach by centres of entrepreneurship development in Nigerian tertiary institutions; students should be mixed during entrepreneurship programmes with recourse to their level of creativity, family background, ethnic group, age, business experience and courses studied