The problems facing Nigeria ranges from poverty, unemployment, over dependence on foreign goods and technology. The Nigerian government introduced entrepreneurship education as a pathway to stimulate selfsufficiency, self-sustainability and self-support skill in students. The aim is to ensure graduates take advantages of personal resourcefulness to be selfemployed. This is because entrepreneurship concerns the persistent pursuit of opportunities to create wealth through innovative usage of materials found around them. Therefore, this paper examines the impart of metal junk art as entrepreneurship education on self-reliance with a view to assessing its implication on the universe of opportunities. Entrepreneurship as an instrument of social change and in education is also given attention to in this paper. The secondary method of data collection was employed where conference papers, journals and textbooks were used. This paper argues that metal junk art will equip the students with the required skill necessary for entrepreneurship by converting waste to wealth. It is recommended among others that skill acquisition programme should be encouraged and funded properly in order to overcome poverty and unemployment in Nigeria.
