Al-Hikmah University Journal

This research survey attempts, on the part of the promoters of the millennium development goals, to bring to limelight the fundamental issues militating against the attainment of MDG objectives especially in relation to poverty eradication on the target date in Nigeria. It discusses conceptual issues of definition, structure and role of entrepreneurship idealising the working experience in the light of the Nigerian factor. An examination of the evolution of poverty in Nigeria is also examined with a view to ascertaining the extent to which they approximate to reality. In the process, both successes and failures of the millennium development goals are highlighted. The research ends with suggestions as to how the scope of the various government policies could be enlarged to allow continuity and enable it meet the target date for the achievement of the millennium development goals in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship, Poverty, millennium development goals.