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This paper attempts to examine the concept of technical education, youths unemployment, causes and consequences. The descriptive survey research design was used in the study. The population for the study comprises of 150 professionals in Bayelsa State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. No sampling technique was used because the whole population of the study was used. A questionnaire titled: Technical Education and Youths Unemployment (TEAYU) was used for data collection. The instrument was face-validated by three experts and the internal consistency determined using Cronbach Alpha procedure which yield a reliability co-efficient of 0.76. The data collected were analysed using mean, standard deviation and Chi-square statistics. The findings reveal among others that: Nigeria economy cannot develop until apprenticeship is encouraged among the youths through technical education in the school. Based on these findings the study among others recommended that apprenticeship should be encourage among youths as a pathway for alleviating poverty.