Entrepreneurship is considered as a key to sustainable development where entrepreneurs serves as the employers of labour in most part of the country, the study take a brief analysis of the impact of entrepreneurship on sustainable development in north-eastern region of Nigeria, a survey research method was adopted to secure the reliable result of the study, 1,667 sampled respondent were successfully participated in the exercise which was determined by taro yamani formula, the analysis was made with the help of statistical package of social science SPSS through which the simple regression analysis was the technique used. Entrepreneurship plays a vital role to make sustainable development possible in north-eastern region of the country at 5% level of significant (P?0.05) (R2=0.782), about 78.2% effect of independent variable (Entrepreneurship) was explained in the dependent variable (sustainable development) which opined that there are much entrepreneurship activities in the region for sustainability of the residents as it promotes the strength of the small and medium-scale enterprises and many individuals became self-reliable and the core employers of labour, the study revealed that entrepreneurship plays an energetic role in the region (Adamawa, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe Taraba and Yobe), through which many people were economically developed as a result of entrepreneurship activities. the study recommends that the residents of the region and the nation in general should embark into entrepreneurship to enable a sound sustainable development, Government should intensify the activities of microfinance institutions to enable the residents access their start- up capital through, as some of them lag behind entrepreneurial opportunities as a result of capital shortages.
entrepreneurship, sustainable development, socio-economic development
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