The present paper aims to identify the myriads of construction malpractices hindering sustainable development of the construction industry in Nigeria. Various stages of construction contracting from project conception stage to completion and handover stage were identified and categorized using a well-structured 5-point likert scale questionnaire. The most prevalent construction malpractices at their various construction stages were identified and further classified from the data collated. The findings reveals that, construction malpractices at the pre-contract stage were ranked as the highest (0.87) amongst all stages, whereas bad procurement practice was ranked as second highest (0.79), release of retention money was ranked as 12th and last position with (0.49) score, amongst prevalent construction malpractices recorded. Similarly, unemployment was ranked as first (0.96) and distrust among parties to the contract was ranked lowest (0.49) respectively in the effects of construction malpractices studied. The study concludes that the vision for sustainable construction development in Nigeria is flawed as a result of the myriads of construction malpractices identified, and recommends stiffer measures against practitioners in order to enforce the compliance of professional standards and procedures using the instrumentality of government policies, laws, regulations and statutory agencies as these bad construction practices must be nipped in the bud.