This study's main objective is to examine the roles of human capital development, energy consumption and crude oil exports in driving sustainable development goal 8-sustainable economic growth in Nigeria. Annual data from 1990 to 2018 were sourced from World Data Atlas, International Energy Agency, WDI and the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin respectively to achieve the aims of the study. | International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ISSN 2146-4553 available at http International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2021 11 4 443-449. Human Capital Development Energy Consumption and Crude Oil Exports in Nigeria Implications for Sustainable Development Timothy Ayomitunde Aderemi1 Oyegoke Adebusola Adebola2 Wahid Damilola Olanipekun3 Olaoye Olusegun Peter4 Ayodeji Gbenga Bamidele5 Azuh Dominic Ezinwa6 1 Department of Economics Accounting and Finance Bells University of Technology Ota Nigeria and Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research CEPDeR Covenant University Ota Nigeria 2Department of Accountancy Covenant University Ota Nigeria 3Research and Consultancy Centre College of Management and Information Technology American International University West Africa The Gambia 4Academic Planning Unit and Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research CEPDeR Covenant University Ota Nigeria 5Department of Business and Entrepreneurship Kwara State University Malete Nigeria 6Department of Economics and Development Studies and Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research CEPDeR Covenant University Ota Nigeria. Email Received 07 January 2020 Accepted 22 April 2021 DOI https ABSTRACT This study s main objective is to examine the roles of human capital development energy consumption and crude oil exports in driving sustainable development goal 8-sustainable economic growth in Nigeria. Annual data from 1990 to 2018 were sourced from World Data Atlas International Energy Agency WDI and the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin respectively to achieve the aims of the study. Autoregressive Distributed Lag technique of estimation was adopted for the data analysis. Consequently the principal findings of this study could be presented as follows there exists an insignificant positive relationship between electricity power consumption and real GDP growth rate. .
