Assessment of the Implementation of Government Policy on Local Extraction of Solid Minerals In South-western Nigeria (Published)
This study examined the process of formulation and various components of solid minerals policy in the Southwestern geo-political zone of Nigeria. It also assessed the extent of its implementation in terms of government’s intended objectives.. The survey method was adopted for the study to elicit information from respondents, who were the major stakeholders in the solid minerals industry. The instruments used included questionnaire, interviews, focus group discussions and observations. A total sample of 300 respondents was selected for the administration of the questionnaire from among the mining communities, miners, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and universities using purposive stratified sampling technique. Information was elicited from respondents on the process of solid minerals policy formulation and its components. Information was also elicited on the extent of implementation through the perception of respondents on performance indices such as, contribution to GDP, employment generation, poverty alleviation, attraction of foreign investments among others since it was difficult to obtain direct quantitative figures on these performance indicators that can be linked to solid minerals. Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to carry out the analysis. The results showed that necessary steps were not followed in formulating the policy (grand mean rating of 2.95 out of 5). The study also found out that the extent of implementation was low (grand mean ratings generally below 3.00 at p ˂ 0.05). The study concluded that the development of the solid minerals sector in Southwestern Nigeria was contingent on conducive social, political and economic terrain; high level of implementation planning and resource mobilization; efficient operations and services; adequate infrastructural facilities and non-cumbersome land acquisition procedure.
Keywords: : Employment generation, Policy Formulation, Policy Implementation, Poverty Alleviation and Foreign Investments.
Entrepreneurial Education: University Current Curriculum must be Restructured To Meet Today’s Employment Needs (Published)
Promoting entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as a useful tool to fight negative economic and social development among the unemployed youth all over the world. This paper discusses implicit and explicit undergraduate curriculum policies to promote entrepreneurship among the youth especially our army of growing unemployed graduates in the country.
This study was undertaking to determine whether the entrepreneurship skills acquisition programme should be included with the current curriculum of the university undergraduates. Simple statistical tools employed waspercentage ratios based on the raw data generated through the instrument of questionnaire. Analysis of the findings were carried out by employing tables, pie charts e.t.c. to interpret the results of data collected from the respondents.
Discussion of the study involved, demographic response of the respondents table1, respondents response to questions (I &ii) table 2,and table 3 where data frequencies were translated into percentages. While figures 1- 8 using broken pie charts were employed to determine their relativity in terms of findings from each of the covering areas of the research work. Also included in the discussion were sex, marital, education, and age of the respondents.
Respondent’s response to theresearch questions were the basis from which data and findings for this work were generated.
On the role of entrepreneurship policies for employment generation.The paper argued that an effective entrepreneurship policy for a common entrepreneurship curriculum with practical training for the Nigerian University undergraduates is the answer or panacea that could break the element of the vicious circle of unemployment among the youth. For it could generate new jobs and create purchasing power and new economic prosperities
Keywords: : Employment generation, Purchasing power, Undergraduate curriculum
