ABSTRACT
Nigeria is endowed with rich human and material resources to become the largest economy in
Africa. Both to contrary, much of her potentials have remained unutilized and the rate of her
graduates unemployment poses a national threat; submitting to a wild economic recession and
political instability resulting to alarming increase in crime practices among the youths. Technical
education as a development strategy that gives access to the untapped potentials can provide the
base for sustainable development. Technical education is to rise to the challenge of the citizens by providing them with entrepreneurship skills, leadership skills, computer and employability skills.
This paper highlights the roles of industrial technical education in empowering youths for
sustainable development. Technical education is to rise to the challenge of the citizens by
providing them with entrepreneurship skills, leadership skills, computer and employability skills
which are incumbent in her formal and non formal classes. This paper highlights the roles of
industrial technical education in empowering youths for sustainable development. The paper also
identifies some factors besieging the effective implementation of industrial technical education
and some recommendations were made based on the identified challenges.
Publication Date: 2016-06-06