About

Department of Zoology

Department of Zoology, starting its journey as an Under-graduate Honours-course department in 2010. The Department organises classroom lectures, interactive sessions, field studies, project works as well as significant seminars for the best benefit of the students. The students are prepared to excel both in curricular and co-curricular activities. They are made aware of various prospects and furnished with the know-how of various competitive examinations.
The department has a well-equipped departmental laboratory and a departmental museum with a variety of fauna that numbers more than 100.

The objectives of our department:

• To provide a comprehensive training in theoretical and practical Zoology to students who after acquiring the qualification can practice the profession in any part of the world and also be eligible for postgraduate studies leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.
• To train students to respond to global challenges and the needs of the society in particular, through broad training / education in the different areas of Zoology and Environmental Biology.
• To equip students with adequate practical skills that will enable them function productively in society.
• To contribute to food production, public health, conservation of natural resources, environmental problems and overall development of science and technology. This shall be done via emphasis on aspects of the programme such as Parasitology, Public health, Entomology, Forensic, Ecology, Environmental Biology, Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zoology, Biology of Animal Development, Histology, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hydrobiology, Wildlife and Conservation of Natural Resources, Systematic and Evolutionary Zoology, Animal Behaviour, Ethno-Zoology, Ecotoxicology, Animal physiology, Genetics, Bioinformatics and Animal Biotechnology
• To give adequate, effective and resourceful training needed for the national and international production of high quality, competent and competitive Zoologist that possess the attitude, character and attributes essential for building the Nigeria nation to excellent level of societal development.
• To inhere amongst the students the highest values of life, respect for Nature and to inculcate sound acquisition of knowledge of animal sciences through quality educational practices and research.