The worrisome level of insecurity in Nigeria has ignited many suggestions for solution including entrepreneurship education. However, little is empirically known about the approach through which entrepreneurship education can reduce insecurity. This study surveyed final year business students in six public universities in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria to investigate the influence of entrepreneurship education on insecurity reduction. The specific objectives were to assess the influence of risk-taking propensity, opportunity recognition capability, and entrepreneurs’ emotional intelligence on insecurity reduction. The sample size was 250 randomly selected final year degree university students. The structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data which were analysed by employing the weighted mean, standard deviation and correlation analysis. Results indicated that entrepreneurship education which emphasizes risk-taking propensity (r = .322, n = 195, P < 0.01), opportunity recognition capability (r = .252, n = 195, P < 0.00), and entrepreneur’ emotional intelligence (r = .320, n = 195, P < 0.01) has significant positive relationship with insecurity reduction. These results imply that when students are educated on risk taking propensity, more confidence will be injected into them to go into business; a training on opportunity recognition will empower the students to easily recognize business opportunities in the environment and education on emotional intelligence will improve students’ self-management skills and increased capacity to manage business relationships. It is recommended that a review of current entrepreneurship education curriculum in Nigeria to incorporate findings of this study would lessen the menace of insecurity.
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