The Department of Mathematical Sciences was established in 1976 as one of the pioneer departments of the then new Faculty of Science. It was called Department of Mathematics. The name was changed to Mathematical Sciences in the early 1990’s due to the recommendation by an NUC special panel that more degree programmes should be introduced, particularly B.Sc. Computer Science and B.Sc. Statistics. Due to staffing and other logistics problems, such new programmes could not be introduced until 2002/2003 session when the B.Sc. Computer Science degree was established. The Department had been running two (2) undergraduate programmes; B.Sc Mathematics and B.Sc. Computer Science and three (3) postgraduate programmes; Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, M.Sc. Mathematics and Ph.D. Mathematics. In addition, the department serves other departments/faculties in the University. With the establishment of new faculty in the University, B.Sc. Computer Science was moved to new Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology in 2011/2012 session. Currently, the Department is running two (2) undergraduate programmes; B.Sc. Mathematics and B.Sc. Statistics; five (5) postgraduate programmes; postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics, M.Sc. Mathematics, M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, M.Sc. Computational Mathematics and Ph.D. in Mathematics. The Department had 4 teaching staff at inception but now has 33 including 6 females. At present the Department has 197 undergraduate and 114 postgraduate students and is headed by Dr. Abbas Ja'afaru Badakaya.