Development is critical and very essential to the substance and positive growth of any nation. A country is classified as develop when she is able to provide qualitative effort for her citizenry in terms of industrial development, manpower development and sustainable development with respect to her conservative nature to the biodiversity etc. Nigeria in the last 53 years has been struggling with the problems of development in spite of huge human, material and natural resources in her possession. This article examines the problems bedevilling Nigeria’s development, which includes monumental sorption, lack of good governance, poor policy implementation and mono economic base of the nation as well as strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper adopted secondary data as sources of information. It observe among other things that diligent implementation of developmental plans, commitment on the part of the leaders, policies implementation and enforcement, absences of corrupt leadership and the presence of leaders with high regard for scientific research and industrialization are necessary and vital requirement for the achievement of sustainable development in Nigeria.