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The need to ensure quality necessitated this study on perceived contributions of information and communication technology (ICT) resources to teaching and learning of business education in South-West Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study while three null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Population was all 550 (52 lecturers and 498 final year students) of business education from all universities in the area that offer the programme. A sample size of 302 (all 52 lecturers and 250 students) was drawn using stratified random sampling techniques. A validated questionnaire containing 24 items in two sections was used for data collection. Reliability of the instrument was established through a pilot study involving 10 business education lecturers and 20 students of universities in South-East Nigeria. Using Cronbach alpha, reliability coefficients of 0.75 and 0.86 were obtained for the two sections with an overall coefficient of 0.81. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and determine the closeness of the respondents mean ratings while z-test was adopted to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument was administered to the respondents in their universities personally by the researchers with the help of four research assistants drawn from the universities. Findings revealed that the lecturers and students perceived that ICT resources contribute to quality teaching and learning in business education programmes at a great extent. It was further found that gender, status and institution ownership did not significantly influence the respondents’ mean ratings. Based on the findings, it was concluded that ample utilization of ICT resources will significantly enhance quality in business education programmes of universities. It was, therefore, recommended among others that management of universities should adequately provide ICT resources for business education programmes in order to boost their utilization by lecturers and students for quality teaching and learning. Government should also make stringent policies to enforce and strengthen utilization of ICT resources for quality teaching and learning in the university business education programmes.