International Journal of Academic and Applied Research (IJAAR)   Year: 2022 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 87-99 National Youth Empowerment Programme and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria, 2015-2019 Download PDF Mbah, Clement Chukwu (Ph.D), Cyprian Uchenna Udegbunam, Osuchukwu, Nkechi Cynthia (Ph.D) Abstract: Youth unemployment and poverty have been twin evils bedeviling the Nigerian economy and society generally. As a result of the ravaging effects of these two monsters successive Nigerian governments have adopted different youth poverty alleviation programmes without stemming the challenges of unemployment and poverty amongst young people in Nigeria. Hence, our interests in examining of the national youth empowerment programme and poverty alleviation in Nigeria N-Power with particular focus on the Buhari Administration 2015-2019. The broad objective of the study was to investigate the national youth empowerment programme and the reduction of poverty in Nigeria under Buhari administration 2015-2019. Secondary data source collection was adopted for the study. Incrementalism theory was adopted as its theoretical framework of analysis. The study found among others that, the major problem of past poverty alleviation and youth empowerment programmes in Nigeria was policy discontinuation, which is policy inconsistency as no administration continued with the policy/programmes of past administration. The study recommends among others that, there is the need for federal government to consolidate the N-Power scheme, since the creation of the programme was borne out of the need to empower the Nigerian youths and save them from the dangers of unemployment.