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Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria – A perspective

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At independence in 1960 and for the best part of the 1960s, poverty eradication efforts in Nigeria centred on education, which was seen as the key to economic, technological and intellectual development of the nation. ’’Show the light, and the people will find the way’’, was, at the time, an oft-quoted mantra by Nigeria’s First President, the late Nnamdi Azikiwe.

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