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This study focuses on investigating the entrepreneurial intentions, drivers and challenges of starting a business in Nigeria. Higher National Diploma and National Diploma final year students of Jigawa State Polytechnic from department of accounting, business administration and management and public administration were used as a case study. The study became necessary due to the alarming rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria.The study adopted a holistic case study approach involving a multiple methods of q National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma (ND) final year students and a telephone interview with two lecturers teaching entrepreneurship in the college. The findings clearly indicate that exposer to entrepreneurship education increases students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The result found that desire for independence; confidence and strong intention are the most important factors that influence students’ entrepreneurial intention. The study identified 3 key drivers of students security and provision of employment. The result again identified 4 factors namely lack of support, finance, insecurity and erratic power supply as the major challenges in starting a bus that the current entrepreneurship education programme prepares students on how to open up a business not becoming an entrepreneur.The study concludedentrepreneurship helps students toward building and driving their intention to venture into business. However, the challenges of entrepreneurship in Nigeria need to be addressed in order to enable individuals to become an entrepreneur and create employment opportunities that will lead to the development of Nigerian economy issue The Federal application in dynamic economic environment. Hence, th entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. This study focuses on investigating the entrepreneurial intentions, drivers and challenges of starting a business in Nigeria. Higher National Diploma and National Diploma final year students of Jigawa State Polytechnic from ss administration and management and public administration were used as a case study. The study became necessary due to the alarming rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria.The study adopted a holistic case study approach involving a multiple methods of questionnaires (182) Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma (ND) final year students and a telephone interview with two lecturers teaching entrepreneurship in the college. The findings clearly indicate that exposer to entrepreneurship increases students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The result found that desire for independence; confidence and strong intention are the most important factors that influence students’ entrepreneurial intention. The study identified 3 key drivers of students’ entrepreneurial intentions. These are to earn a living, to seek job security and provision of employment. The result again identified 4 factors namely lack of support, finance, insecurity and erratic power supply as the major challenges in starting a business in Nigeria. It was also revealed that the current entrepreneurship education programme prepares students on how to open up a business not becoming an entrepreneur.The study concludedentrepreneurship helps students toward building and driving tention to venture into business. However, the challenges of entrepreneurship in Nigeria need to be addressed in order to enable individuals to become an entrepreneur and create employment opportunities that will lead to the development of Nigerian economy. There is need for government to ensure their adequate security and support initiatives towards entrepreneurship education are efficient. Thus, the government should provide adequate support particularly the issue of infrastructures. The Federal Governme the National Board for Technical Education should fashion out the curriculum thereby making it more oriented so that students may become more interested. Polytechnics should develop an internship work in firms so as to put theory learnt in the class to practise. Hence, this might build their entrepreneurial intentions. Students should try to align the theory learnt in college with the practical application in dynamic economic environment. Hence, this will help in building their capabilities toward entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. This study focuses on investigating the entrepreneurial intentions, drivers and challenges of starting a business in Nigeria. Higher National Diploma and National Diploma final year students of Jigawa State Polytechnic from ss administration and management and public administration were used as a case study. The study became necessary due to the alarming rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria.The uestionnaires (182) Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma (ND) final year students and a telephone interview with two lecturers teaching entrepreneurship in the college. The findings clearly indicate that exposer to entrepreneurship increases students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The result found that desire for independence; confidence and strong intention are the most important factors that influence students’ entrepreneurial intention. ’ entrepreneurial intentions. These are to earn a living, to seek job security and provision of employment. The result again identified 4 factors namely lack of support, finance, iness in Nigeria. It was also revealed that the current entrepreneurship education programme prepares students on how to open up a business not becoming an entrepreneur.The study concludedentrepreneurship helps students toward building and driving tention to venture into business. However, the challenges of entrepreneurship in Nigeria need to be addressed in order to enable individuals to become an entrepreneur and create employment opportunities that . There is need for government to ensure their adequate security and support initiatives towards entrepreneurship education are efficient. Thus, the government should provide adequate support particularly the issue of infrastructures. The Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Board for Technical Education should fashion out the curriculum thereby making it more oriented so that students may become more interested. Polytechnics should develop an internship work in firms so as serve as the least challenging variables. The results indicate that government support for would be entrepreneurs is lacking which constrains creative minds from venturing into entrepreneurship thereby creating job openings. Also, issue of infrastructure (power) and initial start-up funds hinders prospective students’ entrepreneurs from achieving their goal. However, this findings are consistent withTaormani and Lao this at higher of entrepreneurial intentions as in the that of of are the major setback amongst final year students become entrepreneurs.