Abstract:
Self reliance in a general sense is what actually promotes
productivity and other economic activities which obviously
lead to the development of a country. From time immemorial
people have always engaged in different activities such as
farming, fishi
ng, hunting, among others, in o
rder to satisfy
their basic needs and enhance their social mobility from one
class to another.
Therefore, the idea of self
-
reliance lays heavily on youth
empowerment by training of mind and body of the youth for
proper inter
gration in to the society and for positive
development. Umar Dantani states that, “the Nigerian
government in collaboration with private organizations should
intensify effort to provide gainful employment to the army of
unemployment youth, this can be done
through the
establishment of micro-finance schemes that assist the youth to be self employed, if this is achieve, redundancy among the
youth would be reduced to the bearest minimum”
