摘要：Sustainable development is must for every developing economy especially in Nigeria. To achieve sustainable development, nations must develop infrastructurally as well as, educationally. Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education is therefore a panacea to guarantee first amiable development. The aim of this paper is to x-ray, theoretically and empirically, how entrepreneurship can be encouraged among Nigerian youths while encouraging entrepreneurship education among Nigerian Varsities to develop the minds of these youths. The paper adopted an empirical approach where 300 small scale entrepreneurs and 300 students were surveyed using simple random sampling technique. It was therefore discovered that the majority of youths vices like kidnapping, militancy, unemployment, poverty etc can greatly be reduced by engaging youths in entrepreneurship ventures. Among other things, it was recommended that government should mobilize competent entrepreneurship personnel to move round schools and communities using both formal and informal approaches to train and retrain youths and adults, literates and illiterates, employed and unemployed.
