This study investigated the mechanism that leads to the entrepreneurial intention of educated youth who have people in business in Nigeria. I tried to see whether ethnic groups might play a significant role in who intends to consider entrepreneurship as a real alternative. I singled out the Igbo ethnic group as the reference group to which I compared the two other major ethnic groups. I used 1,200 National Youth Corps (NYSC) members as participants in the study. The results were mixed. On the one hand, the results showed that there was no difference between the Igbo and Yoruba corp members who had similar structural capital. However, on the other hand, there was a difference between Igbo and Hausa corps members on entrepreneurial intention. The study concluded that the Igbo ethnic group certainly has a business inclination, but not better than others