Poverty has been a serious problem facing all society over the years. This paper critically analyses the problems associated with poverty over the education of the citizens. It also analyses the causes of poverty and the various programme put in place for poverty alleviation such as family economic advancement. (FEAP) and poverty alleviation programme (pap) and various forms in which government has interfered. The question is how far have these programmes served as veritable instrument of poverty alleviation in the country? This paper suggests that even though these measures have not achieved much as poverty alleviation instruments because of their operations deficiencies, they are nonetheless good instruments that could be improved upon. This research also has found out that the increase of the crime wave is as a result of the frustration that the poor get from their deprivation of education by poverty. Workable and feasible solutions have been proffered for the problems on educational sector so that qualitative education of the citizens could be attained.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Title of page                                 i
Approval page                                ii
Dedication                                 iii
Acknowledgment                             iv
 Abstracts                                 vi
Table of Contents                            viii

CHAPTER ONE
1.0    Introduction                             1
1.1    The background of the study                4
1.2    Statement of the problem                6
1.3    Purpose of the study                     8
1.4    Significance of the study                9
1.5    Research questions                     11
1.6    Scope of the study                        12
1.7     Definition of term                        13

CHAPTER TWO
2.1     Review of related literature                         15
2.2    Causes of poverty in the society             19
2.3    The effective of poverty on educational development of the citizens                22
2.4    Efforts to alleviate poverty                 26
2.5    Summary of literature review             30

CHAPTER THREE
3.0    Brief outline of the study                32
3.1     Design of the study                     33
3.2     Area of study                             33
3.3     Population of the study                    33    
3.4     Sample of the study                    35    
3.5     Instrument for data collection             35
3.6     Method of data collection                 35
3.7    Validity of instrument                     36
3.8     Distribution and retrieval of the instrument    36    
3.8     Data analysis technique

CHAPTER FOUR
Presentation and Analysis of Data
4.1     Presentation and data/findings
4.2     Data analysis interpretation /Discussion of finding

CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
5.4 Suggestions for further studies
Bibliography
Appendix A
Appendix B