Challenges for Social Studies Education in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) in Nigeria

Poverty, a social scourge that every developing nation is struggling to banish. Nearly all the third world nations are still growing under its evil effects. The developed nations are equally looking for a ways out, for the developing nation. One of the way out of these problem is the introduction and embracement of Millennium development goal which was strategically designed to reduce the scourge of poverty and to ensure that poverty becomes a thing of the past in our society. And how education can be used as a tool for national development. This paper also looked at the role of social studies towards the realization of the Millennium development goal and also suggested what can be done to enhance its realization in the third world nations. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v4n1p327