"ONE DAY THE POOR WILL HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO EAT BUT THE RICH." The Scourge Of Poverty. Poverty is a degradation of human dignity and the inability to make wishful choices and get opportunities. Poverty is a major source of worry all over the world and it has been a major developmental problem in Africa and Nigeria in particular. Poverty, correlated to underdevelopment, ignorance, retarded growth and illiteracy. Poverty remains a scourge of society as a threat to the progress and well being of humanity. The problem of poverty is so enormous that its reduction or elimination has become the common goal of all states and nations. Poverty does not based on lack of one thing but many different interrelated factors and it's more than the lack of income and resources to ensure a sustainable livelihood. Its manifestation include hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education, social discrimination, exclusion as well as lack of participation in decision-making and othe