ROLE OF OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION AND RISK-TAKING ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION ON GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

The study examined the relevance of risk taking and opportunity recognition entrepreneurial education as a means of securing employment among universities graduates. The study is a survey research design with 2,000 population and sample size of 840. A total number of 797 completed questionnaires were returned which were used for analysis. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data collected while inferential statistics of one tail t-test was used to test the hypothesis formulated using the mean responses. The study found that, dependent variable has positive significant influence on the independent variable. That both risk taking and opportunity recognition has a positive significant influence on self employment of universities graduate. The study recommended among others; entrepreneurship education that will equip graduates with the needed ability to scan the business environment in other to identify business opportunities and take advantage of them