Why it is on record
Owned by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), located at Ede (Osun State) on the Redemption Camp expressway corridor. Home of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) — the World Bank / WAEMU-funded laboratory that sequenced the first West African Ebola genome (2014) and one of the first SARS-CoV-2 genomes in Africa (March 2020). The only Nigerian private university with a globally recognised primary-research facility.
Record held
Sequenced the first West African Ebola genome (2014); first African SARS-CoV-2 sequence (March 2020) — both at ACEGID, Redeemer's; only Nigerian private university hosting a World-Bank-designated African Centre of Excellence in the sciences.
Deep dive
Redeemer's University, Ede, founded in 2005 by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (Pastor E. A. Adeboye), is one of the largest Pentecostal-affiliated private universities in Nigeria. Its African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) was the laboratory that performed the first African sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020 — a landmark in African genomics.