The goal is clear; to end poverty and to do that we most begin by answering the question of why poor people are poor, belief about the poor and the underlying causes of poverty, determine the action that development practitioners persue, the policies that national politicians devise, and the action that we as concern citizins take. belief about the nature of poverty can motivate action or rationalise inaction.This piece of work perhaps throws more light in an attempt to provide answer to these questions. The term poverty implies to those individuals whose incomes are considered inadequate to meet basic needs. The oxford popular dictionary defines poverty as a state of being poor; that is characterise by scarcity, lack and inferiority, where people has little money or means. In real terms poverty is characterised by high mortality rate of infants, malnutrition in thousand of children, age people eating dog food in order to survive, it also means illiteracy and ignorance, disease, misery and stunting of human life and potentials, hunger and starvation. There is always a question; how do we determine if some one is poor?According to IAN Robertson (1983), there are two ways of defining poverty. In terms of absolute deprivation, that is, lack of basic necessities or in term of relative deprivation, that is, the inability to maintain the living standard customary in the society.