Tolani Alonge (not real name), a final year student of the Federal Government College of Education, Oshiele, Abeokuta, was offered just tablets of paracetamol after donating seven ova in March 2021. For the service rendered, she was also paid N80,000 and nothing more at a private fertility clinic in Ogun State.

While some argued that the fee was too small compared to the service she rendered to the fertility clinic, a critical analysis into the exercise in Nigeria shows a more grave concern.

Fertility egg donation is not the end in itself but a means to an actual end, which is in vitro fertilization (IVF). IVF is an advanced form of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) that helps infertile women and couples conceive. Through IVF, eggs are manually fertilized using...

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