Federal University of Lafia was established in February 2011 with the mandate to increase access to and the quality of university education in Nigeria. The University is in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State. It currently has a College of Medicine, a Centre for Continuing Education and Professional Development, two Schools (School of Basic and Remedial Studies and School of Postgraduate Studies), eight (8) Faculties, with fifty (50) undergraduate and forty-six (46) postgraduate programmes.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Professor (Criminology and Security Studies)
Location: Lafia, Nasarawa
Job Type: Full-time
Faculty: Social Sciences
Requirements
The candidate must already be a Professor, must have had twenty (20) publications, of which sixteen (16) are in print, of which four (4) must be in at least three (3) different and regularly published foreign-indexed journals.
Evidence of supervision to completion of three (3) Masters and one (1) PhD Degrees.
Conditions of Service
The conditions of service are as obtainable in Nigerian Universities and as approved by the Federal University of Lafia Governing Council.
Application Closing Date
28th October, 2026.
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