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The main aim of this study was to find out how entrepreneurial environment can be created through Adult and Non-formal education for Sustainable Development. The study was carried out in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. It adopted a descriptive survey design and questionnaire as the main instrument for data collection. A total of one hundred and fifty three (153) respondents constitute the population and sample of the study. Weighted mean and t-test statistics were used to analyze relevant data. The findings showed that elements of Adult and Non-formal education such as functional literacy ( 2.89,  2.97), vocational education ( 3.5 &  3.68), continuing or community education ( 2.73 &  2.98) cultural and civic education, Remedial and Aesthetic education ( 2.52 &  2.69) as perceived by both Adult instructors and Adult learners can promote entrepreneurial environment for sustainable development. The findings further indicated that Adult and Non-formal education can promote entrepreneurship environment by providing learners with computer and other job related skills which are needed for self reliance.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems militating against the utilization of the internet services for Distance Education in Nigerian Universities and their implications for the achievement of the millennium development goals. Universities of Abuja and Lagos, which were the first charge with making the achievement of the objectives a reality, were used for the study. Internet has been identified as the most sophisticated and effective technological media for meeting the needs of delivery Distance education (DE). Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The population was made of, 7000 staff and students. A sample size of 940 respondents which constituted 10% of the population was randomly selected involving a table of random digits. The instrument for data collection was the University Distance Survey Questionnaire (UDEDSQ) developed by the researcher based on the purposes and literature of the study. The instrument was face validated by three experts and cronbach Apha was used to establish the internal reliability consistency, a grand mean of 0.91. Consistency, grand mean 0.91. One research question was used to guide the study, some findings and recommendations were made. It was found that utilizing the Internet for Distance Education in Nigeria is characterized with lots of problems ranging from profound computer illiteracy, shortage of technological personnel, constant power outage, inadequate telecommunications, infrastructure, equipment, among others. 

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