Indigenous communities have fallen victims of underdevelopment arising from the remote nature of their
environment coupled with public/private concentration on the urban areas for meaningful infrastructural and
super-structural development. This situation has deprived most of these indigenous communities in Nigeria of
unleashing their potentials and maximum utilization of their human and non-human resources for socioeconomic
development in their environment. This paper is motivated by this scenario to look for ways of
improving the course of indigenous communities through optimal use of their unharnessed potentials for socioeconomic
development. The paper discussed the principles of community development, its challenges and
prospects for socio-economic growth and sustenance of indigenous communities in Nigeria. This will function as
a catalyst for empowering indigenous communities towards socio-economic and sustainable development.