Poverty Eradication and Sustainability of Healthful Living in Nigeria (Pp. 59-75)

Poverty is not simply a lack of adequate income; it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that extends beyond the economic arena to encompass factors such as the inability to participate in social and political life. In short, poverty is the deprivation of one’s ability to live as a free and dignified human being with the full potential to achieve one’s desired goals in life. Poverty level remains stubbornly-and-unacceptably high in sub-Sahara Africa. This paper discussed poverty eradication as a tool to sustainable healthful living in developing countries with special reference to Nigeria under the following:- poverty on human environment, Nigeria experiences and poverty eradication program. In Nigeria it was evident that despite all socio-economic, educational measures and police such as structural adjustment programme (SAP) austerity measures, Universal Basic Education (UBE), devaluation of naira and seven point agenda mounted to improv