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    Functional Adult Literacy: A Tool for Enhancing Artisans Entrepreneurship Skills Development in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, 2025-01-30) Bilikis Ajoke, OLASINDE; Abdulsalam Oladimeji, SHOLAGBERU; Ahmed SANNI
    The traditional meaning of literacy as the ability to read and write has continued to evolve in recent times in order to accommodate other natures of literacy. It is now clear that there is not one literacy but multiple literacies found in different domains of people’s daily lives. Functional literacy is this the application of literacy skills to the day to day activities of an individual to function in his environment. Artisans takes a larger percentage of Nigeria's workforce and has for generations, continued to be a provider of employment. However, many artisans have become redundant and irrelevant as a result of lack of awareness and inability to recognise opportunities due to illiteracy. This paper therefore seeks to explore functional adult literacy education as a tool for enhancing artisans’ enterpreneurship skills development in Nigeria. Effect of literacy on artisans’ enterpreneurship skills development was examined as well as the challenges of functional literacy education. This paper concluded that functional adult literacy has the potential to enhance artisans enterpreneurship skills and accord them the ability to meet up with demand of the ever changing world. This paper recommended the need for government to make functional literacy accessible for everyone at all government levels and urge the leadership of artisans’ association to encourage its members to acquire literacy skills in order to improve their enterpreneurship skills and relevance.