_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: jonathanoniore@gmail.com; Journal of Economics, Management and Trade 19(4): 1-12, 2017; Article no.JEMT.37144 ISSN: 2456-9216 (Past name: British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade, Past ISSN: 2278-098X) Industrial Sector Growth and Public Infrastructure Capital in Nigeria Jonah Akekere 1 , Jonathan O. Oniore 2* , Akatugba D. Oghenebrume 1 and Ekainsai Z. Stephen 1 1 Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa, Nigeria. 2 Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences, Bingham University, Karu, Nigeria. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author JOO designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors JA and ADO managed the analyses of the study. Author EZS managed the literature searches. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/JEMT/2017/37144 Editor(s): (1) Chiang-Ming Chen, Department of Economics, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. Reviewers: (1) Ahmadu Abubakar, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Nigeria. (2) Elżbieta Szczepankiewicz, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland. (3) Der-Jang Chi, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/21597 Received 2 nd October 2017 Accepted 12 th October 2017 Published 27 th October 2017 ABSTRACT Policy makers in Nigeria tend to regard public infrastructure as the key to long-run industrial and economic growth. But unfortunately, public infrastructure in Nigeria is typically in a fairly poor condition. Poor infrastructure reduces the profitability of modern manufacturing industrial sector and may therefore inhibit industrialization. Road systems are neglected, public transport and telecommunication systems are unreliable, power supply frequently breaks down, hence the study examined the link between public infrastructure capital and industrial sector growth and through that assessed the impact of public infrastructure capital on industrial sector growth in Nigeria. The Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) methods were used for the analysis. The empirical results indicated that on one hand, public capital infrastructure captured by infrastructure development index, human capital development measured by human Original Research Article