This paper focused on the implication for teacher education an analysis of the impact of the federal government’s poverty reduction programmes among students of College of Education, Akwanga, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Multi-stage random sampling framework was used to select 200 respondents from 500 respondents among NCE 1 to 3 students in the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences and School of Sciences of the College. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. The analytical tool used was descriptive statistics. The result of this study shows that the respondents do not benefit from poverty reduction programmes of the government, majority of the respondents were selfsponsored whose parents were farmers and earn less than N10, 000 per month. The result on the effectiveness of government policies in addressing poverty in the study area, the result shows that while (70%) of respondents view the current policies as moderately effective, a significant portion (75%) considers them not effective at all. In view of this findings, appropriate recommendations were made: Government should ensure that poverty reduction programmes should go round not selective; the fight against corruption in the country should be intensified and students should be counseled against early marriage in order to curb vicious circle of poverty among them.