Abstract
New media entrepreneurship is the internet-enabled entrepreneurship that seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivations to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. New media entrepreneurship education consists of three ingredients, namely; creativity; innovation and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship education, in particular, the new media entrepreneurship has been neglected recently in most of Nigeria tertiary institutions, even in the face of current economic, unemployment and energy crises. This current dispensation requires graduates who will be “job creators” and not “job seekers.” With this in view, this paper argues that the new media entrepreneurship education and empowerment for youths at the tertiary institution has an immense importance for youth empowerment and employment for the production of the manpower that is needed in Nigeria labor market. The paper deems new media entrepreneurship education as the most needed education for the development, technological emancipation and industrial expansion of the nation economy. It will tremendously assists in career choice, job placement and gainful employment. It is against this backdrop that the paper makes some propositions on the framework for educating and empowering youths in tertiary institutions of learning. The paper concludes that these proposed strategies and steps will be useful in acquiring new media entrepreneurship skills for students, especially those on the verge of completion.
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