An Assessment of Settler’s Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Development in the North-Western Nigeria
Ali Shariff Kabara & Muhammad Yunusa Salisu
Department of Accounting,
Faculty of Arts, Social and Mgt. Sciences
Federal University Birnin Kebbi
E-mail: alishariff080@gmail.com & yunusms2@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This study examines the impact of settler’s entrepreneurship on the development of entrepreneurship in North-Western Nigeria. The purpose was to assess the extent of their contribution in the entrepreneurial development and its impact on job creation in the region. The study adopted a survey research design. Small and Medium Enterprises owned by settlers in Kano and Jigawa states was the research population. A closed ended questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample size of two hundred respondents using judgment sampling techniques. The data was analyzed by means of descriptive statistics using means procedure while the hypotheses were tested using Z-score techniques. The results reveal that settlers’ entrepreneurship has significant effect on the entrepreneurial development in North-Western Nigeria; and also it has a significant impact on employment generation and economic empowerment in the region. Based on the findings, the study recommends among others that government should make new relevant and realistic policies that will ease access to credit facilities, manufacturing inputs so as to enhance their operations for more effective growth so that more employment opportunities would be realized in the North-Western region of Nigeria.
Keywords: Settler’s Entrepreneurship, Development, North-Western Nigeria
