The Governing Council of the Federal University Gusau, has approved the promotion of Dr. Linus Akor, Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences to the coveted rank of Professor of Criminology and Organized Crime. Prof. Akor’s elevation, alongside 11 others from diverse academic backgrounds, was ratified at the 34th (Regular) Meeting of the Council held in Abuja from Monday, July 6 to Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
In the University’s Special Bulletin released on Wednesday, the Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Council, RT. Hon Engr. Aminu Sani Isa congratulated the newly promoted senior academic staff. He urged them to consider the elevation not only as a recognition of achievements but also a call to greater commitment to higher responsibility, diligence
and selfless service to the university and the society at large.
An accomplished scholar, Prof. Akor’s research interests cut across the multidisciplinary domains of Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking & substance Abuse, Kidnapping, Banditry, Cyber Criminology, Corruption, Victimology and Contemporary Sociological Theory, among others. Prof. Akor is ranked among 115 scientists at the Federal University Gusau, 190,918 in Africa and 2,626,819, worldwide, on the Alpha-Doger (AD) Scientific Academic Profile Ranking Index of i-10-index with Index ID: 5801934
Prof. Akor who is the University Orator of the Federal University Gusau is the current Financial Secretary of the Nigeria Society for Criminology (NSC). He was a member of the Governing Council of the Kogi State College of Education (Technical) Kabba, from March 2017 to March 2020 and had a stint as Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Health, 2007- 2008. He was on the teaching staff of the Kogi State University, Anyigba; from 2002 to 2017.
The elevated appointee has served and acquitted himself meritoriously on a number of strategic University committees including but not limited to: Chairman, University Committee on Media and Communications, Member, University Committee on Inaugural Lectures, Member, University Security Committee; Chairman, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences Examination Misconduct Committee, Chairman, Curriculum and Research, Publications and Seminar Committees of the Department of Sociology as well as the Managing Editor of the Gusau Journal of Sociology, published by the Department of Sociology of the Federal University, Gusau, respectively.
The distinguished Professor of Criminology and Organized Crime has attended and presented research papers at learned conferences and workshops and is well published in high impact peer reviewed national and international journals with over 260 Google Scholar and Research Gate citations on the 9h-index and 9i10-index to his credit. He is also registered on the Online Researchers’ Community Identification (ORCID) with ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-002-7810-8586
