Education is an indispensable means of transmitting the skills and knowledge that are required by individuals to fully participate and contribute to the development of economic, social and political activities of any country. The principal is the head of a secondary school, as such, he is the manager and administrator of that school. It is the responsibility of the principals to provide instructional leadership which entail ensuring high quality teaching and learning by supervising instructional programme and ensuring effective use of instructional time to foster the attainment of educational goals and objectives. Similarly, Onuma (2016) asserted that the principal has the primary functions of exhibiting effective instructional leadership practices for the improvement of diversified curriculum and quality of instructional programme for effective attainment of set school goals.