Revitalizing Literacy for Entrepreneurship among Nigerian University Students for National Growth Yekeen Bello* * Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences, Department of English Studies, Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Nigeria. E-mail: belight1010@gmail.com Article can be accessed online at http://www.publishingindia.com Abstract The fast increasing rate of under-development in Nigeria as a result of nonchalant attitudes towards literacy and entrepreneurship by Nigerian students propelled this researcher to carry out this study. The study adopted a survey research type. The population for the study was all the Nigerian students from the North Central geo- political zone of Nigeria. Stratiied ransom sampling technique was used to select 30 students (15 males and 15 females) from each of the 25 universities in this zone. A twenty-item researcher-designed questionnaire (RDQ) was used for the purpose of collecting data. The content validity of the instrument was done by two experts while the reliability of the instrument was ascertained via test re-test statistical method, thus giving 0.58 reliability index. The three null hypotheses were tested using Pearson r statistical method at 0.05 alpha level of signiicance. The indings revealed that there are positive but low correlations between literacy and entrepreneurship as well as entrepreneurship and national development having computed calculated r-values of 0.289 and 0.299 which are greater than the critical r-value of .195 respectively at 0.05 alpha level of signiicance. However, there was positive and high correlation between literacy and national development having calculated r-value of 1.296 and critical r-value of .195 at 0.05 alpha level of signiicance. Based on these, it was concluded that national development is a result of intellectual work and an easy facilitator of intellectual development is in the art of literacy. As a result of the indings and conclusion of this study, it was recommended among other things that the Federal Government should entrench mass literacy and entrepreneurship education in schools’ curriculum Introducion Literacy as a concept is a subject that cannot be deined because it is a different thing to different scholars. For instance Uzodinma (1993) identiies many types of literacy from ‘Pre-literacy’ via ‘dysfunctional literacy’ to ‘computer literacy’, all of which are considered to be united in purpose, function and importance. On the other hand, Postman (1978) postulates that literacy should be tied to a nation’s aspirations and efforts geared towards the liberation of an individual. Despite the divergent views held about literacy, most scholars have agreed that it is an essential ingredient for individual and national development (Olajide, 2002). Similarly, Nzuoke (2006) views literacy as a code of visual representation of an aural/oral communication in a particular language. Also, the United Nationals Economic and Scientiic and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) submits that a person is literate when he has acquired the essential knowledge and skills which enable him or her to engage in all activities in which literacy is required for effective functioning in his or her group and community, and whose attainments in reading, writing and arithmetic (3rs) make it possible for him or her to continue to use these skills towards his/her and also put up a unit that would be vested with the responsibility of monitoring the full implementation of the mass literacy program and entrepreneurship education as well. Keyword: Revitalizing Literacy in Nigeria, Entrepreneurship and Nigerian Students