Effect of Entrepreneurship Skills on the Development of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

The research work titled “Effect of entrepreneurship skills on the Development of the Niger Delta region, has the broad objective of ascertaining the effect of entrepreneurial skills on the development of Niger Delta region. The study adopted content analysis method which employed secondary sources of data. The study was guided by human capacity theory. It further revealed that the development of the Niger Delta region is faced with the corruption among the government agencies which could not allow the full execution of the agencies' Master Plan on the development of Niger Delta region. The implication of the study is that entrepreneurship skills acquisition has made effort to ensure accelerated development of the Niger Delta region in the country despite the impoverished nature of the region in terms of human capital development. Following the trend of development in the Niger Delta region through entrepreneurship skills, the researcher made the following recommendations the people of Nigeria Delta region should be willing to embrace any development activities initiated by the government in their area knowing well that it is for their good well being, since it is capable of making them more entrepreneurially skilled. Government and oil and gas multinationals in the region should regularly organize seminars, workshop, and symposium on Entrepreneurships in order to sensitize the people on its impact on development of their region, and Government should pay more attention on the development of entrepreneurship skills in Niger Delta region so as to forestall the youth restiveness and redundancy in the area etc. Nwire Sunday Oscar | Prof. Ewuim Christiana Ngozi "Effect of Entrepreneurship Skills on the Development of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd43880.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/43880/effect-of-entrepreneurship-skills-on-the-development-of-the-niger-delta-region-of-nigeria/nwire-sunday-oscar