Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science is one of the few Faculties that were established at the inception of the University in 2011/2012 academic session. The pioneer Dean of the Faculty was Prof. Martin O. Ogbe while the other past Deans in sequential order were Prof. Emmanuel Hala Kwon–Ndung, Prof. Dauda G. Yakubu, Prof. Ibrahim Garba Bassi and Prof. Nasirudeen Mohammed Baba.
The ten Departments in the Faculty offer ten programmes and each Department has a well articulated mission and clearly defined objectives in line with the vision, mission, motto and philosophy of the University. These ten programmes are designed to produce graduates who are conversant, in a broad sense, with the theories, principles and application of science with the appropriate IT skills, so that they could be resourceful, adaptive and innovative in their employment, be it in their field, research, or in industry and prepare them for lectureship in tertiary Institution and self–employment. The curriculum of each programme is also designed to meet and surpass the basic academic standards prescribed by the regulatory authorities such as National Universities Commission (NUC), and equipped our students to become intellectually resourceful and physically fit to emerge as leaders in their chosen disciplines and solutions providers in their future careers.

Matthew Olaleke Aremu currently works as Professor of Industrial Chemistry at Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Nasarawa State, Nigeria. He is the current Dean of Faculty of Science and former Director of School of Basic and Remedial Studies at FULafia. He was a Pioneer and former Deputy Vice–Chancellor, Academic Services at Federal University Wukari (FUWukari), Taraba Sate, Nigeria. He obtained his B.Sc, M.Sc and PhD Industrial Chemistry from three Nigerian Universities of Ilorin, Lagos and Ado–Ekiti, respectively. Prof. Aremu also obtained certificate in Development of University Based Entrepreneurship Centre at Kennesaw University, Atlanta, USA between August and September, 2015.
He does research into isolation, structure, physicochemical characteristics & functional relationship of proteins and lipids of underexploited plant seeds and pulps. His research group has won Institution and TETFund research grants at different times. Prof. Aremu has published over one hundred and sixty peer–reviewed and scientific articles in different national and international journals of repute as principal/co–author, and participated in several regional and international conferences. He has successfully supervised and graduated 5 PhD and 10 M.Sc students. He has served as external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate students in various Nigerian universities and also served as external assessor for candidates seeking promotions to professorial positions in Nigerian universities.
He has been associated with many learned societies such as Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN), African Scientific Institute (ASI), Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (ICCON) and Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFST). He was elected and honoured with the Fellow of the prestigious Chemical Society of Nigeria (FCSN), Fellow of African Scientific Institute (FASI) and Fellow of Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria (FICCON). He is a Certified Food Scientist of Nigeria (CFSN).