Abstract
Educating adult individual in any society is considered as a vital move towards liberating such individual adult. Thus, adult education programmes need to be readdressed to cater for individual adult needs in terms of economic, welfare and social development. This paper gives an x-ray of the concepts of adult education, sustainable and community development, concepts of poverty and poverty eradication and the imperative roles of adult education programme to sustainable community development and poverty eradication among populace in Nigeria. The study recommended adequate funding since adult education is essentially central to both personal and communal development and contributes to national development as well. Thus, the government should therefore, adequately fund education, especially adult education for the promotion of community development in these areas of study. DOI: https://doie.org/10.50390/NCAEJ.2026296448