Remediating youth restiveness using social entrepreneurship education

Youth restiveness has been on the increase in almost every community in Nigeria. This has contributed to massive loss of lives and properties, which constitute a major threat to security of the state and its corporate existence. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between Social Entrepreneurship (SE) andYouth Restiveness (YR). The study followed the pragmatic philosophical paradigm combining both the inductive and the deductive methods of scientific inquiry in a cross-sectional survey. A systematic random sampling was adopted to collect datafrom308 youths that werebetween 18 and 46 years old, using a self-structured questionnaire.Mentorship was used as a dimension of SE while dysfunctional protest was used to measure YR. The descriptive (mean, percentages and standard deviation) and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The findings showed that there were more males (82.8%) than females (17.2%). Half of the youth were graduates and only 28.1% were not. A mean score below 5 points was obtained,indicating that the youths admitted to having a good relationship with the experienced persons they worked with. It was also observed that an increase in dysfunctional protest was not as a result of the adoption of Mentorship (r = 0.550). In conclusion, mentorship inversely affects youth restiveness thus efforts to curb youth restiveness should adopt mentorship model.