| Summary: | In the recent times federal and state governments in Nigeria have provided policies and resources to provide entrepreneurship training for students in all tertiary institutions but these have not yielded desired result as a result of lack of required training for lecturers that trained theses students as they could not effectively practice what they were thought. Thus, with a view to change youth orientation from job seekers to job makers. This paper objectives are to examine the need for entrepreneurial skills in lecturer and find out how the training and trainers programme facilitate improvement in the training programme and bridge the gap between entrepreneurial skills/ training and graduate entrepreneurial intention. A survey of 200 Level and 300 Level students of Lagos State University offering entrepreneurship courses were selected in 2020/2021 academic session with total population of 15,095 which copies of questionnaire was self-administered to 368 students as the sample size across 7 faculties of the University at the main campus Ojo. Findings from the correlation analysis revealed that most of the students are not entrepreneurship inclined and could not implement or practice what they learn or thought in the university, that is the reason why they are busy looking for white collar job as well as government work that are not available. This has increased the level of unemployment, aggravated abject poverty and hindered sustainable human development in the country. Therefore, it was recommended that entrepreneurship education should be made compulsory at formal and informal educational institutions.
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