Abstract
Unemployment is a social problem that affects a large percentage of Nigerians directly and indirectly.I It is capable of leading to increase poverty in the land. Nigerian is a densely populated nation, with the youths having the largest share of the population and an alarming unemployment rate. Several avenues have been established to help solve the problem of unemployment with creation of incubation hubs being one of them. The incubation hubs space provide various support to startups that are domicile in it in order to aid their growth and development and ultimately help them solve social problems, create jobs and improve the lot of the nation at large. Unfortunately the incubation hub spaces are poorly studied in scholarly literature as pertains to job creation and youth unemployment in Nigeria. Through comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, this article explores this subject in Southwest, Nigeria. Research questions this article answer include; what are incubation hubs? How have they developed in Nigeria? How do youths benefit from their existence? What is the impact of this general benefit for youths and the state of unemployment in the nation? This article makes significant contribution to knowledge as there is a dearth of works on the specific area this article focuses on.