Abstract
In human capital management, the most imperative thing is to think about the human capital that is skillful, innovative, proactive, and profitable for comparative advantage. Any professional development programme (PDP) (Training for Higher Education, Conferences, and Workshops) embarked on by any institution should be geared towards increasing the output and development of both the staff and the university. This study, therefore, sought to investigate lecturers' rate and location of participation in professional development. Descriptive survey design was used to investigate the rate of participation. The population for the study is all lecturers at Nigerian Federal universities. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 554 participants. Face, construct, and content validity of the instrument was done with the internal consistency via Cronbach Alpha indicated 0.70. The descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, graph, mean rating and rank ordering) were adopted to analyse the research questions raised. Thus, the finding indicated that the Nigerian universities' lecturers have a high rate of participation in PDP.