Abstract: As a change agent for socio-economic growth and sustainable development, continuing education plays a key role in Nigeria’s plan for prosperity. The study identifies the several conceptual clarifications on the concept of continuing education and its relevance in contemporary Nigerian society. It further examines continuing education in line with the Millennium Development Goals and the role it plays in achieving the goals as universally projected. The study quintessentially canvasses better designed continuing education programmes that sufficiently orient beneficiaries with a development consciousness, empowering them to make it possible for Nigeria to actualize the development goals by 2015.