Promoting popular participation for entrepreneurship and sustainable basic educational development in Nigeria

This paper acknowledges the fact that education is fundamental and a must to national development; and as such, it should be made accessible to all irrespective of sex, age, and socio-economic status among others. Resulting from this therefore, there is the urgent need to promote people’s (Nigerians’) participation in sustainable entrepreneurship through basic educational development required to empower recipients who will further contribute to national development. The need for basic entrepreneurship education, the constraints of popular participation and the guidelines for promoting it through the Nigerian educational enterprise were emphasized.