The research work is on; “The implications of capacity planning of infrastructural development in the Kogi State Higher institutions, “A study of selected higher institutions in Kogi East”. The objective of the study therefore, is to critically analyse the problems associated with shortages of infrastructural needs of the higher institutions in Kogi State occasioned by the inability on the part of both the government and management of these institutions to put in place a workable capacity planning structure. To carry out this study, the researcher used both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected through structured questionnaire administered through trained enumerator; while secondary data were collected from text books, journals and the internet. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The descriptive statistics used include frequency, mean and simple percentages. The research hypotheses were tested using the simple regression analysis, coefficient of determination, correlation coefficient, F-test, T-test and Analysis of variance (ANOVA).