PUBLICATION OF NIGERIA ND TECHNICAL EDUCATORe ais Fa ASR Uy sarc Un aaa Polytechnic professor BITRUS DAW! TARFA Faculty of ‘ srtment of Soil Science, aareuture ‘Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD SULEIMAN’, ABDULLAH! BASHIR ABDULLAH!” AND AMINU ‘ABBAS GUMEL” Dept. of Business Admin. & Management, Sch. of Rural Techn. & Entrepreneurship Dev. Kano State Poly’, Dept. of Computer Science, College of Science & Techn. Hussaini Adamu Federal Poly, Kazaure, Jigawa State’&° 4. AMINU SADAUKI Dept. Of Mathematics, Federal College of Education, Kano. |, SHUAIBU’, BINTA ABBA” AND DR. YUSUF IsyAKU? Dept. of Home and Rural Econs, Binyaminu Usma Polytechnic, Hadejia, Jigawa State’. Dept. of Fine and Applied Art, Sa'adatu Rimi COE, Kano State Sch. of Early Childhood and Pri, Educ. FCE (T) & OBOT, JOSEPH JOHN AND FILIBUS, SARAH __ Adamawa State College of Education, Hong D, 1.A.', ADEVINKA, |.A.’, KABIR, IM." a 1 SANI, |." MUHAMMAD, }.¥ : 12, 13, 14. Technology, Kano State Polytech os ‘AND ZABIRIM. JOHN” Adamawa State College of Education Hong UMAR, A.A. "| DAWAKUL ALY. 7, picky KABIRU, 0.0." AND 1.1, MADIGAWa' Pept. of Crop Production Technology be Pest Management Technology’, Dept. of ve Agriculture’, & Dept. of Animal Health ang Husbandry’, Audu Bako College of Agricutture Dambatta SETH NKOM BITYONG AND CHRISTOPHER YERIMA e Technical Education Department, Kaduna State C.0.E Gidan Waya, Kaduna, NWALADO, S.H; ORU, P.O AND AVEMMENRE, School of Business Education, % ABDU BAGGA Jucation, Kano, ABUBAKAR 8, Z AND A. HASHIM Agric. Exten. & Rural Dev. U.D.U,, Soko of Agric. Edu., Zamfara State College of ucation AHMED, LA.", ADEYINKA, |.A.’, KABIR, M.”, RA ‘AW, SAMI, |.', ABUBAKAR, A.M.', AND GALADI NM."| pusmanecmannan a conmmsncanon TeOMOLONY -AMOTIVATING TOOL FOR POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD SULEIMAN?, ABDULLAH! BASHIR ABDULLAH? AND AMINU ‘ABBAS GUMEL? ‘Abstract im most African countries, o considerable part of young graduates remains without real ‘employment opportunities. A possible solution for this problem might be self-employment ! Such a solution, on the other hand, requires the development of entrepreneurial skills Information ond Communication Technology (ICT) should be considered as an ideal tool to speed up the development process of entrepreneurship programs in Nigeria. The ICT has not been effectively implemented in Entrepreneurship because of various social, economic ond geographical reasons. This paper attempted to discuss the fundamental roles of ICT in the development of entrepreneurship in Nigeria. It was also discovered that limiting foctors such as frequent power failure, lack of qualified technicians/repairers, insurance cover | erises and insecurity constitute obstacies, which any budding entrepreneur must tackle | ‘Among others, the paper recommends that government should subsidize these ICT tools importations in order to reduce the cost of these tools to enable them stay in business and ‘government should be insurance protection for these ICT entrepren theft and natural disaster. ase of accidents, Keywords: ICT, Entrepreneurship, ‘Introduction action. 7 to describe contractors ‘Several definitions have been given to expla holding projects like roads and bridges (Musa, | ndimerpret the acronym ICT and the one giv 2 meana, 2012}. Wiliam, et al., (as cited in | below seems to be the closest ICTs is 2 gener meanc 2) saw Entrepreneurship as [termreferring to technologies that are used for accepting the risk of starting and running a —_— storing, editing and passing oF business. They noted that it is the ability and information in-verious forms.’ willingness of an individual to create and build something that 1s virtually none existing.