The Faculty of Allied Health Sciences was established as part of College of Health Sciences in April, 2014. The Faculty currently has five departments offering both academic and professional training in various health care specialties.The Departments and their establishment dates: 1. Physiotherapy 1989 2. Medical Laboratory Science 2009 3. Nursing Sciences 2009 4. Medical Radiography 2009 5. Optometry 2014 6. Environmental Health Sciences 2021. The Department of Physiotherapy is the oldest department in the Faculty. It started as the Federal School of Physiotherapy in 1989. In 1995, the programme was affiliated to Bayero University, Kano under Faculty of Science, and in the same year (1995) it graduated its first set of B.Sc. Physiotherapy. It attained the status of a full department in 2002 at Faculty of Medicine when it was taken over from Federal Ministry of Health. The B.Sc programme was upgraded to Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) in 2005. At the inception of the College of Health Sciences, the department was moved to the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences from the defunct Faculty of Medicine. The Departments of Medical Laboratory Science, Medical Radiography and Nursing Sciences were concurrently established during the 2008/2009 academic session, in consonance with the recommendation of the defunct Faculty of Medicine Strategic Committee of establishing Faculty of Allied Health Sciences. Department of Optometry was the latest to be established in 2014/2015 academic session and Department of Environmental Health Sciences was established 2021.