ABSTRACT
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) portend for the global community especially the developing world (like Nigeria) enormous benefits geared towards ensuring that no one is left behind. These goals include poverty eradication, gender equality, and quality education, amongst others. Therefore, the attainment of the SDGs is imperative.
Education remains a vital means for attaining the SDGs and teachers are the active agents for meaningful education. This implies that competent teaching manpower or personnel is sacrosanct to achieving quality education and the SDGs. Hence, this chapter which is a desk research seeks to draw attention to the issues bedevilling teaching manpower in Nigeria. It examines the implementation of the teaching manpower policy in Nigeria as an imperative for sustainable development. Specifically, it focused on the concept, review of the teaching manpower policy in Nigeria, teachers’ recruitment, and distribution, and made relevant recommendations.
