1 CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF TERTIARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA D r. S. N . Oranusi Department of Educational Foundations, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt. And Stanley C. Alaubi Sports Unit, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt. Abstract The general dissatisfaction with the educational process especially Higher education in Nigeria has given rise to several efforts to find more effective approaches to the education of the young. The influenced expansion in our university system may be an answer to the insatiable demand for university education, but we seem to have taken an action which may infact compound the problem that we are supposed to solve. This paper therefore recommends among others that Nigeria tertiary institutions would have to acquire the major tools of internalization – ICT, which must become a management learning, and research tool. With appropriate develop ICT capacity, Nigerian tertiary institutions would be reducing the time and space that have separated her for too long from the world epicenters of internalization. Tertiary education is the past secondary education. NPE (2004) emphasized that Tertiary education covers the post-secondary section of the national education system which is given in universities, polytechnics and colleges of Technology including such courses as are given by the Colleges of Education, the Advanced Teacher Training Colleges, correspondence colleges and such institutions as may be allied to them. The aims of this level of education according to NPE (2004) are: a. the acquisition, development and inculcate of proper value-orientation of the survival of the individual and society. b. the development of the intellectual capacities of individuals to understand and appreciate their environment; c. the acquisition of both physical and intellectual skills which will enable individuals to develop into useful member of the community; d. the acquisition of an objective view of the local and external environment.