Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2019 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Leadership, University of Lagos, course: EDUCATION IN MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine Manpower Training and Development, Staff Performance and Retention in Federal College of Education, Technical (FCET) Akoka Lagos State, Nigeria. The need for employee’s retention has encouraged the employers to pay attention towards Employee development through training in order to keep them motivated. Training with development as a function of human resource management is concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings. This study examine the manpower training and development and staff performance and retention and in Federal College of Education, Technical (F.C.E.T) Akoka Lagos. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and the study population comprised all the academic staff of the Federal College of Education, Technical (FCET) Lagos State. The sample size consisted of 150 respondents selected through the simple random sampling technique. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages while inferential statistics of Chi-square (X2) was used to test all hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that training and development of staff in an organization is very paramount.