During the period of the Nigeria Civil War, 1966-70, one of our sister Universities, the University of Nigeria , Nsukka, was hard hit to the extent that staff and students had to abandon the campus to escape the horrors of war. The period witnessed the migration of staff and students from the said University to the other Nigerian Universities. The Faculty had its own share of the influx. In 1967/68, courses in Business Management of Political Science and a Sub-Department of Sociology married to the Department of economics.

During 1969/70 session, the Faculty expanded by the transfer of the Department of Geography (formerly in the Faculty of Arts) to the Faculty of social sciences. The period also witnessed the establishment in terms of industrial and demographic research and training. At this time the sub-Department of Sociology and Demography of Economics. In 1971 the sub-Department of Estate Management became a separate Department and was tr4ansferred to the Faculty of Technology. In 1971/72 the Faculty initiated a programme called Government, Philosophy and Economics (P.P.E).

In 1972/73 the Demographic. Research and Training Unit became Institute of Population and Manpower Studies while the Department of Sociology and Demography became the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

The session 1975/76 witnessed swift changes in the University. A new Vice-Chancellor was appointed and consequent readjustments in the University resulted in consequential readjustments in the Faculties. The institute of Population and Manpower Studies was renamed the Department of Demography and Social Statistics and the proposal to create the Industrial Research Unit into a separate Industrial Research and Development Unit was abandoned with Unit remaining a project within the Department of Economics. Later, the centre became independence has become known as the Centre for industrial Research and Development. Consequently, in the 1975/76 the Faculty of social sciences constituted of the Department of Economics, Demography and Social Statistics, Geography, Political Sciences and Sociology and Anthropology. The session also witnesses the transferred of courses in Accounting and Business from the Faculty of Administration to the Department of Economics. Staff transferred was also made from one Faculty/Department to another. The faculty has since grown in size with the introduction of the Department of Psychology.