Vision To create an efficient globally competitive Department that attract student’s world-wide in solving environmental challenges of our time Mission • Creating an environment for student’s engagement and faculty contributing to the intellectual growth of our students and solving environmental problems of our communities that reflects national nature. • Building upon the existing foundation in expanding Environmental Science programs to other Department within the University. • Putting Environmental Science into the national domain and eventually becoming a School in attracting students within the West Africa Sub-Region. • Liaising the Department of Environmental Science with respective industries, state institutions and professional bodies for transfer of knowledge and technology.

The Department’s Objectives are to: • Strengthen human capacity to address environmental issues at the local, national and international levels. • Enhance scientific understanding of environmental issues by supporting credible problem-focused research. • Facilitate and expand access to environmental information. • Assist decision-makers by providing comprehensive assessments of current environmental knowledge and its implications.