Capacity Building Strategies: Pathway to National Development in Nigeria

Abstract

The situation of capacity building in the Nigerian workforce has been a pathetic one for a long time, especially with regards to the quality of goods and services from our production and service industry, the quality of teaching and research in our tertiary institutions and the prevalence of skill gap in the Nigerian workforce. It has become an issue of grave concern because of the incessant rejection and neglect of Nigeria’s products and services including the unemployability state of most Nigerian graduates at the international labour market due to high level of deficiency in capabilities in relation to excellent academic qualifications as a result of poor educational training. The data for this paper was collected through a review of related literatures from various media. The paper therefore examines the need for capacity building in Nigeria and also suggests capacity building strategies necessary to enhance national development.