Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola KadirMurtala, A. TOjo, O. JLawal, A. A2020-03-172020-03-172016-06http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3863This study investigated the influence of staff development programme on teachers’ job performance in lower basic schools in Kwara State. To achieve this, two hypotheses were formulated and tested. Descriptive design was used for the study. Research constructed questionnaire titled Staff Development Programme Questionnaire (SPDQ) and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) ware used for data collection. Pearson product moment correlation statistics was used to test the two hypotheses. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of this study revealed that there was significant relationship between teachers’ attendance at seminar, attendance at workshop and teachers’ job performance. It was recommended that teacher should continue to be giving opportunity to attend seminar regularly by providing a guide to be consistence with further learning activities and improve classroom management skills in order to boost teachers’ job performance for the achievement of educational goals, teacher should continue to maintain giving opportunity to participate in workshop to facilitate teachers in discovery clear objectives of lesson and application of new procedure in teaching and build up competency in terms of dynamic learning as well as opportunity to renew their knowledge so as to enhance effective job performance in order to achieve educational goals.enstaff developmentprogrammelower basic schoolsNigeriaArticle