This paper examined civic education as an effective tool for the realization of national objectives in Nigeria. National objectives represent the totality of a nation's development agenda or vision at a particular period. In Nigeria for instance, this has been formulated and expressed in various ways by the various regimes in the country. Similarly, civic education has to do with the inculcation of good or expected moral values, skills and attitudes on the citizens with the aim of arousing their consciousness to obey constituted authority and apply their abilities towards addressing developmental challenges confronting the nation. Effective civic education would therefore enable the citizens to embrace patriotic values and refrain from terrorist insurgency, religious violence, armed robbery, kidnapping, pipeline vandalization/oil bunkering, and other forms of sabotage. This paper therefore argued that proper civic education affords an effective tool for the realization of national objectives. The paper employed qualitative method of analysis through the use of secondary (library) and primary (interview) sources of data collection. The data were descriptively analysed through detailed information gathered from documentary sources and interviews. The theory of post colonial state in Africa was found suitable in the analysis. The paper finds that the poor realization of national objectives in Nigeria has seriously undermined Nigeria's national development. The paper recommends the intensification of the teaching of civic education at the various levels of Nigeria's education system as well as using the tool as a re-orientation for public office holders as well as Nigerians at the grassroot level.