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"Entrepreneurship is not restricted to sex, height, colour, individuals, race or culture and through it, women in different nations play equal role in economic development with their male counterparts. This implies that an entrepreneur can either be male or female. However, this is not the case in all society as in most developing countries, female are discriminated upon. This study therefore adopted the survey research design in examining gender entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Nigeria. Using purposive sampling method, three states in south west Nigeria were selected as the study location; Lagos, Oyo and Ogun states from where a sample of 333 was selected using the Krejcie and Morgan sampling technique. Data was sourced using structured questionnaire. Frequency count and simple percentages while the hypotheses formulated was tested using ANOVA. The result of the study indicated that gender entrepreneurship can lead to sustainable development in Africa given that female have wider population which also implies higher business creation to alleviate the problem of unemployment, poverty as well as leading to higher productivity, among other findings. Based on the findings, the paper recommended that female be encouraged into doing whatever job they wants without a care about gender. Also, the study recommends that financial assistance be given to innovative female entrepreneurs to fund their innovation in the form of grant." |