Oluwalola, Felicia KikelomoEgbebi, J. O.2024-04-222024-04-222017Oluwalola, Felicia K, & Egbebi, J. O. (2017). Effective management of entrepreneurship education in traditional education practice in Nigeria: Its implication for innovative individual self-economic survival. International Journal of Education Planning and Management (IJEPA), 2(3), 187-192. Published by International Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria.1119-3239https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/12500A published JournalThe paper examined the effective management of entrepreneurship education and traditional education practice in Nigeria where individual must be self-reliant through innovative ideas, generated for self-economic survival. Skills, knowledge and competence to attain innovative individual economic survival is expected to be achieved through traditional education practice of doing it by yourself and merged that with the goal of entrepreneurship education of Western Education as embedded in the National Policy on Education. This in the long run, will make every learner to become self-employed and thus bring improvement to national development through this innovation and development. The objectives of entrepreneurial education; entrepreneurial education and indigenous educational practices; indigenous educational practices and innovation for development; the road so far on formal/western education in retrospect and entrepreneurial education; method of delivery of an entrepreneurship programme; challenges of entrepreneurial education; and barriers to an entrepreneurship in Nigeria were vividly espoused. The paper concludes and recommends among others, that Africa and Nigeria education policy makers, curriculum planners/implementers, administrators and managers in the sector should complement and use the best features in the western education and traditional education simultaneously to achieve the objectives of entrepreneurship education.enArticle