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    Graduate self-employability: a panacea to youth unemployment in Nigeria
    (Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, 2018) Abdulkareem, R. L. & Aloba, F.M
    The issue of graduate unemployment has been in the front burner of discourse in the nation in recent years with the churning out of graduate’s year in, year out clogging further the labour market. Even with the many universities engaging in entrepreneurship training, many of their product are still not self-employable. They lack certain requisite skills for sustainable self-employment. These skills create a gap in their knowledge which should have been embedded in the curriculum used in the process of training them. From the literature reviewed, the paper looked into what the self-employers actually need, recognising the gaps in the required skills and how these can be incorporated into the curriculum the students are exposed to before they graduate. This curriculum should expose them to skills apart from technical and professional skills that will make them employable or make them self-employed, reducing greatly the number of unemployed people in the nation. This will stem the tide of rising social menace in the country often created by joblessness, which if not addressed can threaten the stability of the nation.