HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPM ENT IN SOCIO -ECONOM IC DEVELOPM ENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper attempts to bring to the centrality of human resources development in national transformation. It sees human resources development as a process which is highly synonymous with capital formation. It argues that resources development is the process of acquiring and increasing the number of persons who have education, skills and experience as well as the motivation which are critical for economic and social development. The paper also argues that in spite of that prodigious resource with which Nigeria is magnanimously endowed by nature, concern for human resources development is still utterly disheartening. It believes that a radical transformation of the structures and institutions of internal oppression built and sustained by the ruling class will in no little measure lead to a positive concern in this education thereby bringing Nigeria to be among the top developed countries in the world.