Faculty of Arts

Faculty of Arts is located in the main campus of the University. It was established at the founding of the Federal University of Lafia in 2011 together with Social Sciences under the name of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The two Faculties were later separated. The Faculty has grown within the last thirteen years to become the largest Faculty of the University with nine (9) degree awarding Departments.

Prof.Muhammad Tanko Aliyu a Professor of Islamic Studies (in the area of Qur'anic Studies) is the current Dean of Faculty of Arts, Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State from 27th July 2023 to date. He is an internal Council Member representing Senate and HOD, Islamic Studies. The Dean holds B.A. in Qur'an and Hadith Studies (2002) of OIC Islamic University in Niger Republic, M. A. Islamic Studies (2007) of University of Jos and PhD Islamic Studies (2014) of Bayero University Kano. He worked with the Nasarawa State University Keffi, Nasarawa State where he rose through the ranks to Senior Lecturer (2004-2019) before transferring his service to Federal University of Lafia as an Associate Professor (2019). He has taught Qur'an and Hadith and other related courses in the last twenty (20) years of his University teaching experience, published widely and edited many journals and conference proceedings. He had supervised many undergraduate projects, M.A. Dissertations and Ph.D Theses.