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Abstract
: School plant management is an important sub-component of the school system that is designed to ensure the effective organization of school facilities for the effective utilization of the school programme. Many public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD) have not been doing well in terms of managing their school plant. It is based on this that this paper discussed the challenges militating against effective school plant management in Nigerian public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD). The paper employed both primary and secondary data to provide empirical support to all the points raised. This paper identified funding, procurement, supervision, inspection and record keeping, protection, creating awareness on maintenance culture, routine maintenance of school plant, and prevention of individual commercialization of school plant as roles of the government and school managers in school plant management. This paper also identified inadequate funding, corruption, enrolment explosion, lack of community participation, engagement of untrained and unskilled personnel for maintenance, lack of maintenance culture, vandalization, and lack of supervision as problems militating against effective school plant management in Nigerian public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD). To address these challenges, the paper among other things recommended that government should increase the funding of public Post-Basic Education and Career Development (PBECD).achieve its mandate of socio-economic development which is the rationale for creating tertiary institutions in Nigeria.