I am glad to welcome you on behalf of the Committee to the website of the Animal Care and Use Research Ethics Committee (ACUREC).  The ACUREC is one of the five ethics committees at the University of Ibadan.  Also, ACUREC came into being as a result of the Federal and State agencies that mandate regulation of animal research through the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).  The ACUREC is therefore empowered by policy and law to ensure all research activities involving animals satisfy federal, state and local regulations and policies governing the use of animals in research. The University of Ibadan, ACUREC is currently duly registered with the National Code for Health Research Ethics, Nigeria (NHREC/UIACUREC/05/12/2022A).

It is therefore compulsory for any researcher in the University thinking of using animal in research to apply for (by submitting research protocol and other required documents to ACUREC) and obtain ethical approval before embarking on such research activity.  This is important because increasingly, human continue to transgress their ecological
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