Interrogating the Effectiveness of Poverty Alleviation Measures in Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration (2015-2023)

Chinedu Valentine Ofoma; Umar Suleiman Adeiza

Authors

Chinedu Valentine Ofoma Department of Public Administration, Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria
Umar Suleiman Adeiza Department of Public Administration, Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria

Keywords:

Poverty alleviation, National Social Investment Programme, N-power, Conditional Cash Transfer, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, National Home Grown School Feeding Programme

Abstract

Poverty is one of the major challenges faced by nations across the globe especially developing countries. Evidently, certain measures and strategies have been adopted by different governments of countries as well as development organizations to address this issue which has appeared to be a conundrum in some countries. Nigeria as a country is not an exception to the above as some strategies have been adopted by successive governments to address the challenge. In contributing to this discourse, this paper aims to explore the effectiveness of poverty alleviation measures in Nigeria pinning it down to Buhari’s administration (2015-2023). In the course of this study, the poverty level of Nigeria prior to Buhari’s government in 2015 was unpacked so as to strongly establish the extent to which the measures adopted by the government have yielded results putting the country’s current level of poverty into consideration. The paper adopted a literature review-based method driven by content analysis. The major implication of this paper suggests a deeper understanding of the ineffectiveness and sustainability-insensitivity of Buhari’s government poverty alleviation model. Therefore, the model performed abysmally poor and needs to be disregarded by the current government and other countries facing similar poverty challenges. As a panacea, this paper recommended for infrastructure investment model to address the prevailing poverty in the country.

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