Tansian University Journal of Arts, Management & Social Sciences

Development planning has been the main strategy used by many countries of the world to set their visions, missions, goals and effective means of realizing development. In Nigeria, the application of development planning has been a consistent phenomenon since 1946 and resources have been mobilized to ensure a sustainable economic growth and development using the instrumentality of national development plan framework. The study aims at appraising the extent of attainment of the Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020 as a developmental framework to redesign the country’s future against the backdrop of historical antecedents of policy reversals, summersaults and failures in development drives. The past National development plans covering 1960 to 2019 were analyzed. Further, the paper discussed the challenges that will likely mar the successful attainment of Nigeria’s vision 20:2020. Historical approaches were not only used but the relevant data were generated and analyzed from government official documents, publications, author’s practical experiences and personal interviews. It was recommended that human capital development must be adequately developed, existing science and technologies to be properly funded, policy framework to be consistent, issue of corruption check-matted, economy diversified into agriculture and non-oil-driven economies while only leaders with credibility, integrity and commitment to serve should be elected to public offices in the interest of good governance.

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