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ONUORAH ONYEKA LEO, PhD, JOSHUA JULIANA.

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Abstract This paper examined effect of higher education and human capital development on National Development in Nigeria. It highlighted the fact that a nation develops in relation to its achievement in education. This explains why contemporary world attention has focused on education as an instrument for launching nations into the world of science and technology resulting in human advancement, in terms of living conditions and development of the environment. This paper adopted a survey research design and the targeted population was two hundred and eighty five (285) academic staff of Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. A sample size of two hundred (200) academic staff of the academy consists of fifty (50) respondents each from four faculties; while purposive sampling technique was adopted in obtaining the sample size. The implication of the paper is that education is the life wire of a nation that leads to great growth and development, as no nation rises above its standard of education. Therefore, Nigeria needs to appraise its present educational system and introduce innovations that would ensure it competes favorably with global standards. This paper concludes that higher education is indispensable for the development of human capital that has the capability to transform an economy significantly and assists the country compete with others emerging economies. Among others this paper recommends that the Nigerian government must bridge the gap that exists between the crisis saturated university system and the students’ who will become the national developers, change exponents and development crusaders.

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