ICT COMPETENCES AND CAPACITY BUILDING NEEDS OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION LECTURERS IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES Samson O. CHUKWUEDO Industrial Technical Education Unit onyeluka.chukwuedo@uniben.edu +2348029026002/+2348163389989 & Victor I. IGBINEDION, Ph.D. Professor, Business Education vicidion@gmail.com +2348056014291 Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Faculty of Education, University of Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria Abstract The prevalence in the use of ICT to carry out several functions in the developed world, especially in the academic field calls for upgrading of TVE lecturers in Nigeria in the use of ICT in order to perform their job effectively since TVE programmes are crucial and far reaching for technological advancement. This is in addition to the fact that the TVE lecturers’ responsibilities are complex. This study therefore identified the ICT competencies that TVE lecturers in Nigeria need for capacity building. In order to carry out this study, three research questions were raised and answered using mean and mean differences. The study employed the descriptive survey research design. All the TVE lecturers in the universities in the five states of the south-southern geopolitical zone of Nigeria formed the population of the study. The sample size of the study was 90 TVE lecturers selected from six universities in the five states of the south-southern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. A questionnaire of two-scale components for possessed and needed ICT competencies constructed and validated by experts was used for data collection. The reliability coefficients of the questionnaire were 0.83 and 0.76 respectively for the two scale components. The data analyses revealed that TVE lecturers need capacity building in the use of ICT for instructional, research and administrative purposes. It was recommended that state and federal governments should develop and implement functional provision of packages for the training and retraining of TVE academic staff members in the use of ICT for effective and efficient job performance. Key Words: Capacity building, TVE lecturers, ICT, competency, job performance African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 7, Pp 45-53. 2014.