Faculty of Life Sciences, Abdullahi Fodio University of Science and Technology (AFUSTA) was split from from Faculty of Science in 2018. The university is a state-owned university founded in 2006. It is a non-profit public higher education institution, which has been officially accredited and recognized by the National Universities Commission (NUC), Nigeria,
The Faculty currently has four departments; Animal and Environmental Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Plant Science and Biotechnology. Degrees awarded includes; B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D.