The purpose of this study was to investigate the effective use of instructional materials in teaching and learningof technical drawing in Awgu Local Government Area. The study was conducted at technical colleges in Awgu LocalGovernment Area of Enugu State Nigeria. The population for the study was 220 people. A simple random samplingtechnique was used to select a sample of 100 respondents made up of 3 teachers and 97students.The instrument for datacollection was structured questionnaire. The return rate of the instrument was 96%. Three experts from University ofNigeria Nsukka validated the instruments. A pilot study of two teachers and 10 students were conducted at GovernmentalTechnical College Enugu. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to test for the reliability. The reliability coefficient of 0.76was obtained for the instrument. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. Mean and standarddeviation were used to answer the research questions, while t-test was employed to test the null hypotheses at .05 level ofsignificance. The study revealed that there were lack of instructional materials and hence ineffective use of it in TechnicalColleges in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. It was recommended that all players in the educationalsystem should make ceaseless efforts towards encouraging and sustaining the procurement, production, storage andutilization of instructional materialsin teaching and learning of technical drawing in our Technical Colleges.