This paper investigated change management: The Opium’s of improving capacity of resources  in public universities in Nigeria. Descriptive research survey design was adopted for this study. Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) is among the universities in Nigeria therefore, Federal University Owerri is chosen to represent entire universities in Nigeria.  One research question this study. Population of this study is 2,50 which comprised 1,50 males and 100 female lecturers in Federal University of Technology Owerri. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 40 male; from industrial lecturers each from industrial chemistry and project management department. In the same vein, 30 female lecturers were selected from agricultural and chemical engineering department which gave a total sample size of 70 lecturers selected as sample size. Researcher developed questionnaire titled “change management: The Opium’s of improving capacity of resources in public universities in Nigeria” was used, with four rating scales of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists in Business Education, Madonna University Nigeria, Okija campus, Anambra State. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument was reliable for use in this study. The instrument was administered to students with the help of two research assistants. Student’s responses were collected and analyzed using mean scores. Chi Square -test of independent was used to test the hypothesis. Findings of from this study revealed that some lecturers resist change due to old adopted habits. Other reasons why lecturers resist change include:  fear of losing their jobs and private negative perceptions on the newly introduced change.  The findings also, revealed varied improvement in capacities of lecturers on modern means of instructional delivery such as lap tops, pam tops, desk tops, PCs among others.  It was recommended from this study that government should provide adequate modern technological instructional materials for effective teaching and learning in public universities in Nigeria. This would enable both students, lecturer’s to measure up with the demands of modern instructional technologies in public universities in Nigeria. It was also, recommended in this study that adequate power supply should be provided in Nigerian public universities. This would enable effective administration of public universities and effective delivery of instructions in public universities in Nigeria.