Section 2: Functions of the University.

The objects of the University shall be to-(a) encourage the advancement of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction the opportunity of acquiring higher education in sports;
(b) to develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of first degrees, post-graduate research and higher degrees with emphasis on planning, adaptive, technical, maintenance, sports medicine, developmental and productive skills in the engineering, scientific, and allied professional disciplines relating to sports resources with the aim of producing socially mature men and women with capability not only to understand, use and adapt existing technologies in the sports , but also to improve on them and develop new ones;
(c) to act as agents and catalysts, through post-graduate training, research and innovation for the effective and economic utilisation, exploitation and conservation of the country's Sports resources;
(d) to offer to the general population, particularly in the area sports, as a form of public service, the results of training and research and to foster the practical applications of these results;
(e) to establish appropriate relationships with other national institutions involved in training, research and development of technologies in the Sports sector;
(f) to identify the problems and needs of sports in Nigeria and to find solutions to them within the context of overall national development;
(g) to provide and promote sound basic scientific training as a foundation for the development of sports in Nigeria, taking into account indigenous cultures and the need to enhance national unity;
(h) to encourage and promote scholarship and conduct research in restricted fields of learning and human endeavour;
(i) to relate its activities to the technological, social, cultural and economic needs of the people of Nigeria; and
(j) to undertake any other activities, appropriate for a sports university of the highest standard.