Like
unemployment, poverty is ravaging the society. It has vastly been documented
that more than about 80 percent Nigeria’s live on less than
one dollar per day. Therefore with invigoration of TVE, there should be some
form of school – work- based learning incorporated vocation programme in
integrated in Nigeria schools to create self employment through skills which
would enhance productivity and national development via poverty reduction and
aliviation. The method emphasized by government to reduce poverty is
ineffective due to lack of skills training facility. Giving money to the poor
who cannot manage their own lives to set up small business is like pouring
water in a bucket with holes. The adage of teaching some body how to catch fish
instead of giving him fish tells it all. Train some one in vocation of his and
create employment and unimaginable technical vocational education is the main
obstacles to poverty reduction in Nigeria