Adult Education for Income Generation and Improved Livelihood of Communities in Nigeria

Abstract

Communities in Nigeria require a greater number of the adult population to possess the requisite knowledge and skills through education. In Nigeria, most people engage in several income-generating activities to make a living. Income earnings in rural communities have been diversified across farm, non-farm, and off-farm activities. Thus, the a need to consider education and training through adult and non-formal education in equipping adult inhabitants within the rural communities to adapt to these changes. Education is an eye opener and a power -full instrument for income generation and improved livelihood. Adult education is a strong toll for liberating man from constraint, ignorance, a vicious cycle of poverty, hunger, unemployment, social inequalities, disease, and crime to mention but a few. Adult education programs provide individuals and groups with basic daily lives activities and sustaining livelihood as action-oriented, problem and development-oriented. The process guarantees sustainable improved livelihood conditions of people, thereby facilitating progress in income generation and improved livelihood, particularly among the vast rural majority