The entrepreneur plays a vital role in the process of economic growth and development.
Iwu Eze A. (1986) in a paper presented in on entrepreneurship development in Nigeria, said that a entrepreneur is a contractor an organizer of an enterprise for the public a resourceful person with a dream. entrepreneur are bold men and woman who have initiative and the ability to lead, manage and take the consequences. They are men of action, risk takers, missioners, creative and highly respected of their ability to effectively and efficiently concubine the functions of management to achieve the goals.
He also noted that during colonial period only few of Nigerians could boast of personal or family capital to start off any meaningful business and hence the next place of call for business and financial was bank. It is a well known flat that banking operations during the colonial were highly and sparsely limited urban centers. The bank at that time existed to serve internets of the colonial civil servants who had appreciated income to warrant banking transaction Nigerians who had no collaterals or big financials to guarantee their loans could not help on banks to stat off any business.
During the colonial era the Nigerian business seen was dominated even at the grassroots lends by inclines, Greeks, Ghanaians, Sierra Loninas and others.
These foreign nationals had a better exposition from the Nigerians and with this advantages, it was easy to dislodge them when the colonials left the scene in 1960. then, in other to give Nigerians an opportunity in participating and shaping their country economic future introduced indigenization and enterprise promotion dance of 1972 and it’s revision in 1977. the objective was to foster economic self reliance and maximize external intervention in politics.
Against, the national development plans were introduced and also in July 1986 SAP (structural adjustment programme) was introduced . entrepreneurship constitutes a vital engine in the economic growth and development of nations including.
Nigeria because it helps in the stimulation of indigenous entrepreneurship, leads to the transformation of traditional industry create employment opportunities, generates incomes ( locally and externally) contributes to regional activity and co – operation etc..
According to Ani N.B ( 1999,5 , 7) said that entrepreneurship started when people produced more products than they needed and a such , had who also these surpluses with others who also wanted to dispose of their surpluses . for instance , if a black smith produced more hoes than he needed he exchanged the surplus he had with what he specialization . this process is known as trade by barter before the advent of any form of money.
Modern entrepreneurship in Nigeria started with coming of the colonial masters and during the era, Nigeria was not their own masters . an entrepreneur often needs starting capital, which is normally small and derived from personal savings or from family sources
Concrete attempts at encouraging the growth and development of entrepreneurship have led to the establishment of some government agencies as industrial development (I.D) , Small scale industry corporation[S S I C] Nigeria bank for commerce and industries [N B C] , national economic reconstruction fund (NERFUNA) directorate of foods, roads and rural development [DFRN] etc.
All these have been made to ensure the substance and growth of small and medium scale enterprises in the country.
Generally in our society there are exist of several business enterprises in which Aguata is not exceptional in terms of this small nature of business in the community. Thus disparts the growing nature of small scale business enterprise in Aguata there are problem needed to be solve by the researcher in course of this study (is confronting the business activities) which has to do with problem of financing of this small scale business enterprises, as well as the problem that relet to management of the available resource in the organization which neccestate to the liquidation of most small business enterprise, and finally, the problem that has to do with proper decision making on the day to day business activities.
The short listed problems neccestate reasons for the study
The purpose of this study is to find out the following
This research intends to examines the problems and prospects of entrepreneurship development in Aguata local government area.
This study will give a broader view of problems and prospects of entrepreneurial development in this area and to make recommendation of findings.
In order to solve the research problems, the following research questions will be asked:
Irrespective of the role of entrepreneurs in economic development of Nigeria , enough has not been done in terms of educations awareness and finance assistance.
The study is of great important to entrepreneurs as a guide in business, in addition the study will as well serve as literature for further studies and will serve as a useful guide in entrepreneurship , the policy makers in business organizations will find it useful also in making decisions.
In addition, it is expected that the in finding will help to bridge the gap that may exist or may have existed and to make entrepreneurship business more effective and efficient in the case of carrying out the business activities
This research on examine the problems and prospects of entrepreneurship development in Aguata is not an exception to the usual constraints associated with research work. The constraints are:
For easy and concise understanding of this work, it is necessary that vital terms be defined .