ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND ENTREPREUNEURAL INTENTIONS OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS IN THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC IDAH, KOGI STATE

The research project titled: Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions of accounting students in the federal polytechnic Idah, Kogi State. The objectives areto examine the impact of technical skills on youth empowerment, to determine the extent to which students who undergo Entrepreneurship programme acquire knowledge and skills during the programme and to verify how the students respond to Entrepreneurship programme.. The main source of data for this research work was gotten from the primary which was collected through questionnaire. The methodology used is chi-square statistical instrument. Having analyses the relevant data collected important findings, conclusion and recommendations were made. The finding revealed that entrepreneurship programme helps to empower and reduce poverty by providing the youths with it discovered that entrepreneurship programme helps to empower and reduce poverty by providing the youths with sufficient skills and knowledge to raise output, income and wealth, it asserts that students undergoing entrepreneurship programme acquire knowledge and skills that make them to be self employed and it believed that entrepreneurship programme helps to reduce unemployment problem in the country. It is recommended thatthere should be collaboration between small business entrepreneurs and research findings of those institutions to achieve technology development, Government at all levels could intervene in postulating good policies to reduce the problems of entrepreneurs through the supply of needed technologies and business information and advices and the current training entrepreneurship in for students in the Federal Polytechnic Idah and other institutions should he upheld and given firm support.