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ENT208: Nigeria Indigenous Entrepreneurial Giants

Welcome to ENT 208: Biographical Studies of Entrepreneurial Thinkers and Giants, which is a two credit unit course. This course is a second semester course, which is prepared and made available to you in this second year of your undergraduate degree programme in B.Sc. Entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Management Sciences. This course material is very fundamental to you in your academic pursuit as well as in workplace as managers or administrator. It will enable you acquire the skills of starting up a business and appreciating it as entrepreneurs, in order to ensure its sustainability. It has been developed to suit the Nigerian context.

What Will You Learn?

The course is made up of five modules with sixteen study units: Module 1 has 4 Units, Module 2 has 5 Units, Module 3 has 2 Units, Module 4 has 2 Units and Module5 has 3 Units. The areas covered in this course are: Biographies of different entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the world as a whole, how they started, the challenges they encountered, how they were able to overcome the challenges and build a niche for themselves, the importance of discovering and taking calculated business risks and growing an entrepreneurial empire.