The paper considered the 1969 national curriculum conference in Nigeria. The national curriculum conference was convened to discuss the challenges in the Nigeria educational system and how best to remodel and advance it to meet Nigeria developmental ideals after she gained independence in the 1960.It was observed that the inherited colonial-missionary education in practice before the conference was convened, was considered to be very bookish, narrow in scope, too classical and lack of content diversification, irrelevant and unfavourable to meet the technological and economic goals and developmental aspirations of the emergent nation. Hence the conference was convened to address all the anomalies identified in the missionary- colonial education. The conference was indigenous and at the instance of the Nigerian Education and Research Council (NERC), with support from the UNESCO, with many international observers in attendance. The conference was the first of its kind in Nigeria, in that, it brought Nigerians from all works life together to discuss how best education could be used to meet Nigerian developmental needs. The conference was a major landmark in the history of Nigeria in that it revolutionized education positively in Nigeria. The conference gave rise to many other conferences and meetings through which many educational policies and programmes emerged in Nigeria. Some of the outcome of the national curriculum conference was the national policy on education of 1977, the 6:3:3:4 system of education and many other educational programmes aimed at encouraging nation-building in Nigeria.