Teachers' Capacity Building: A Genuine Mechanism for Achieving Human Capital Development in Nigeria

This study examined teachers’ capacity building as genuine mechanism for achieving human
capital development in Nigeria. The study is delimited to Delta North Senatorial District of Delta
state, Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study. This study adopted the descriptive
survey design. The population of this study covers all school teachers in Delta North Senatorial
District of Delta state. The sample of this study consisted of 330 teachers. Purposive sampling
technique was used to select 3 out of 9 local government areas that constituted Delta North
Senatorial District of Delta state. Twenty schools were selected using the simple random sampling
technique of which about 15 teachers were purposively taken from each school.  The instrument
adopted in the study was the questionnaire titled: Teacher Capacity building Inventory (TCBI). It
was constructed by the researcher. The data collected were collated, coded and analyzed with
descriptive statistics because of their appropriateness to the research questions. The outcome of
the study revealed that the extent to which teachers’ capacity building can enhance the
achievement of human capital development in Nigeria is very high. There were several challenges
militating against teachers’ capacity building in Nigeria and that the itemized strategies were
laudable for improving teachers’ capacity building in Nigeria. Conclusion was reached based on
the findings and useful recommendations were made, which include among others that attention
should be paid to development programmes that would make teaching career appealing and
geared towards achieving human capital development in Nigeria. Government should device
more strategies that will enhance capacity building of teachers’ Educational administrators and
policy formulators should implement policies that would surmount the challenges facing teachers’
professional development in Nigeria.