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This study basically examines the challenges and prospects of electronic library development in academic libraries in Nigeria, using the Federal Polytechnic Offa as a case study. The paper discusses the benefit of e-resources in the library, the usage of electronic resources by the students and staff of the Federal Polytechnic Offa. A total of 600 hundred students and 100 staff were used during the period of this study for the population of this study. Survey research method was adopted for the study. A questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. Frequency counts and simple percentage were used in analysing the data collected. The Study revealed that the use of electronic resources has great impact on the academic performances of the students and improve the teaching skills of the academic staff of Federal Polytechnic Offa. However, there is the need to improve on the acquisition of ICT technique, this is in the areas of mastering of various search engines, there is also the need to improve on the poor signal of the internet.