Improved Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction through Functional Education Programmes in Nigeria Rural Areas: A Prescription

There is general global call for provision of basic education for all and sundry to overcome poverty, as poverty tranced beyond its traditional meaning of “have not.” The poor populace is deprived of basic education rights, especially in southern Asia and African. Absolute and relative types of poverty do exist in Nigeria in particular. The study was anchored on theory of andragogy. The paper therefore aimed at exposing such blatant types of poverty in Nigeria and proffered solutions for eradicating the poverty via functional education programmes in the country.