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    Sectoral Approach to Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria, 1980-2010: A Survey
    (The Department of General Studies, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, 2016) Lewu, M.A.Y., & Afolabi, A. S.
    Poverty is a global phenomenon. United Nation's declaration of 1966 as the International Year for the eradication of poverty was a clarion call on the international community to focus on poverty. A survey by the Federal Office of Statistics in 1996 put 65.5% of Nigerians as living in poverty. Though this reduced to 54% in 2004, it remained an unacceptably high percentage. This paper attempted a historical survey of Federal Government efforts at eradicating poverty since 1980 up to 1994, through sectoral programmes such as agriculture, health, transport, housing and finance with a view to identifying suitable poverty alleviation programmes in Nigeria. Available secondary and internet sources were synthesised with oral interviews to examine how succesful this programs have been and how they could be effectively sustained but it discovered that for various reasons, many of the programs failed to achieve much despite massive investments. Hence, poverty remain endemic. The paper concluded that until there is genuine government commitment to addressing the root causes of poverty and adhering strictly to the execution of programmes designed with the collaboration of all the relevant stakeholders, government efforts may remain futile.