Poverty has always been a subject that is linked to human development. To get rid of poverty, researchers have devoted their time to examining poverty from a variety of perspectives, including the economy, society, and culture. The government has initiated several poverty alleviation programmes to lift poor Nigerians out of poverty but there are many problems associated with these programmes, several of which are associated with managing citizens’ information, inadequate file storage mechanism, poor file update system, insecurity of data, and diversion and embezzlement of funds. To address these challenges, technology adoption is the key. It would enhance the design of the poverty information management system (PIMS) that would assist in collecting, organizing, storing, updating, and retrieving information for decision-making by the government. The system would also establish direct contact between the poor and the government thereby boycotting the embezzlers and diverters of government funds meant for the development of the poor Nigerians. There would be outlets for the poor to register their complaints which would help the government to re-strategise their development plans. This research studies the lapses of the existing poverty alleviation programmes and interacts with managers to propose a framework with a web-based application that can help the government to correct the errors that led to the past falling programmes. Measures are put in place to uniquely identify individuals and secure the system from unauthorised access. The system can operate on various platforms that would be available to a user such as a personal computer, tablet, and smartphone with a user-friendly interface. Adopting a system that offers solutions to the challenges of poverty alleviation programmes such as diversion and embezzlement of funds would greatly assist the government to lift many Nigerians out of poverty thereby boosting the nation’s economy.

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Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. Nigeria is classified as a poor country and the poverty level in Nigeria is on the increase yearly with no hope of ever breaking free from the grip of extreme poverty. This has been the reason young women prostitute, children of school age hawk, young men deal with drugs and tout in parks, and the elderly and physically challenged beg for food on the streets. The youngsters find a method to get the resources they require to carry out their fundamental duties when the pressure to live up to their expectations becomes too great to bear. This contributes to the reasons crimes like kidnapping, armed robbery, bombing, theft, fraud, child abduction, human trafficking, rape, murder, assassinations, ritual killings, cultism, banditry, terrorism, vandalism of infrastructure, and political violence are too rampant in Nigeria today. The resultant effect of poverty has endangered people's lives and property, obstructs business operations, and deters investors which impacts negatively on the economy of the nation. Therefore, this article explores the technological paths to poverty alleviation and sustainable development of poor Nigerians especially those in the rural areas. The study uses a systematic review methodology to direct its search of the literature across several electronic databases on terms relating to poverty alleviation in Nigeria. Findings show that a Smart Connect Systems (MWS) can lift Nigerians out of poverty especially those in the rural areas thereby reducing insecurity and boosting the economy of Nigeria.

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Providing services efficiently to library users informed the idea of this research. Managing library resources manually requires immense resources both capital and human; due to dissatisfaction which students and staff experienced during delivering library services, a library assistance software was proposed, designed and developed for the library of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana to aid staff and students in giving and receiving library services efficiently. In this paper, a library assistance software known as LIBASSYST was designed and developed with the aim of enabling library staff to discharge their duties efficiently. Object-oriented analysis and design methodology (OOADM) and model-view-controller (MVC) were adopted as design methodology and patterns respectively. Unified Modeling Language (UML) was used in creating the software artifacts such as use case, entity relationship diagram and class diagram. Relational database was used in implementing the database of the system. summarily, a functional, secured, scalable, maintainable and robust library assistance system was developed and it was recommended for implementation in the Institution.

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