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The study investigated the free campus shuttles system and professional development as correlating with lecturers’ effective instructional delivery in public universities in the South East Nigeria. A correlational design was adopted for the study. The research area was South East Nigeria. The population of this study comprised of 1009 lecturers in Public Universities in the South East, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a total of 403 lecturers which was equivalent to 40% of the total population. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample of this study. The instruments for data collection were the researcher’s developed three sets of questionnaires. The first questionnaire was titled ‘’MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES QUESTIONNAIRE (MOSTRAQ)”, The second questionnaire titled ‘’QUALITY ASSURANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (QAQ)’’ and third questionnaire titled “LECTURERS’ EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY QUESTIONNAIRE’’ (LEIDQ) The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient. Linear Regression analysis (ANOVA) was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. From the study it was concluded that campus shuttle system significantly to a moderate extent relate to lecturers’ effective instructional delivery and professional development of lecturers significantly to a very high extent relate to lecturers’ effective instructional delivery. One of the recommendations made from the study states that University Authorities should establish robust professional development programme for all her categories of staff especially the lecturers so as to update their knowledge with contemporary concepts and issues.