Al-Hikmah University Journal

This paper examines “Politics and educational developments in Nigerian (2000-2020) Federal University Lokoja was used as proxy for the study, and the scope was limited to federal universities in Nigeria. Three specific objectives was deduced as the philosophy for the study, such as; the relationship between politics and human capital development in Nigeria., the relationship between politics and self-reliance and finally, the relationship between politics and crime reductions in Nigeria. The methodology adopted was a mixed method approach, this method was selected for us to sample opinions from the students and staff of federal university Lokoja, Kogi state Nigeria and to run a simple regression on the study due to the time series trends. SPSS econometric social science and simple OLS regression was employed in the analysis of the data gathered for the study. Poor academic performances in Nigeria were discovered having nexus with politicizations of educational development. It was recommended that accurate quality assurance on both teachers and students should be maintained in order to jack up the academic performances in Nigeria, the government should be made to know that just like “no country can develop in the dark”, ceteri-paribus “no country can be developed without educational development