The fundamental issue this research seeks to address is to examine whether Youth empowerment has effect in reducing poverty among youth, this is very critical in Nations Building and Development especially in FCT Abuja with particular reference to Kuje Area Council. Empowerment provides young people with the desired skills, resources and opportunities necessary to improve their socio-economic conditions. KEKE-NAPEP program which is one of the Youth Empowerment Schemes (YES) for the youths is the main empowerment focus for this study as it is one of the sustainable programme in the Area. Poverty which is the outcome of inadequate investment in Youth is a major challenge in Kuje. The category of beneficiaries for the programme is the semi-skilled youths. The study applied qualitative and quantitative research design, questionnaires and interviews were sources of data collection, primary and secondary data sources which include documentaries from National Poverty Eradication Programme were also used. The study found out that youths need empowerment which includes access to education, skills acquisition, access to employment and investment opportunities, social protection in order to fully develop, tackle poverty and have exposures leading to greater awareness, access to credit facilities. Human Capital Development Theory was adopted to explain the dynamics of youth empowerment as youths are critical elements in nation building. The population for the study is 3,000 drawn from the wards in the Area Council, while the sample size is 353. The study found that the major factors that affected the success of youth empowerment programmes in the area include lack of exposure to empowerment information and insufficient information, corruption, lack of funds, misappropriation, poor monitoring etc. The research recommended that: government should widen the coverage of the programme to enable it capture more people, there is need for youth empowerment, and this will lead to poverty reduction thereby benefitting their families and the society at large, both economically and socially with guided efforts to make empowerment programs more impactful and sustainable.