Abstract:
Interest of this study is to explore the recognition of importance of education to the development of a nation, as a means of poverty eradication which is regarded as the most important goal of human development. Ironically, in the time past in Nigeria, education delivery has suffered a major setback ranges from inadequate frameworks policy, project duplication, gross inefficiency as well as corruption. In view of this and many others, the United Nations comprising of Nigeria and other 188 members in year 2000 in a meeting widely referred to as Millennium Summit in the United States of America came up with the idea of Millennium Development Goals especially for developing countries, for the purpose of poverty reduction, hunger and availability of education for all (Mahammed, 2006). It is a shocking paradox that a significant proportion of Nigeria population is poor despite its enormous wealth as Adejuwon & Tijani (2012) argued. Therefore, this study through historical exploration examines those issues that arose since the commencement of Millennium Development Goals as it concerns Nigeria as well as prospects of achieving a remarkable impact within timeframe. The paper concludes that government at all levels needs to be sincere in the implementation of Millennium Development Goals if the issue of illiteracy, poverty and hunger are to be eradicated by year 2015 as the year set out to achieve goals of the Millennium Development. Key words: Poverty, Human Development, Hunger, Illiteracy