Meet SAVAGE AJOKE OLUREMI, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Human Rights, Health Law And Gender Issues
Senior Lecturer
Public and Private Law
At the Public And Private Law department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: Human Rights, Public Law , Sexual And Reproductive Health Rights And Medical Law
Description: Research relating to Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and Gender Issues especially those relating to Women and Girls
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Human Rights; Public Law) | University of Pretoria, South Africa | 2014 |
Between Ethics and Law: Rethinking the Recognition of Organ Donation in Nigeria
Nigerian law permits the
altruistic donation of human organs while criminalising any donation made for
reward, recognising the organ only as a gift. This article argues that, against
a background of acute scarcity, an absent deceased-donor programme, and
pervasive poverty, that gift-only settlement is internally contradictory: a
regime built on anti-commodification and anti-exploitation convictions produces
the very exploitation it condemns, driving the organ trade underground and onto
the bodies of the poor. The 2023 conviction of a former Nigerian senator for
organ trafficking in the United Kingdom serves as its emblem. Drawing on the
bioethical debate over commodification and on African relational conceptions of
personhood, the article contends that reform must move beyond the binary of
gift versus sale toward a regulated middle that honours the law’s ethical
commitments. It advances four interlocking proposals: family and
community-inclusive deceased-donation coordination that declines presumed
consent; a transparent national donor registry; a regulated framework
distinguishing reimbursement of a donor’s burden from purchase of an organ; and
the inclusion of transplantation within national health insurance. Rethinking
legal recognition, it concludes that the surest way to keep organs out of
commerce is to make lawful donation genuinely work.
SAVAGE OLUREMI is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public and Private Law
SAVAGE has a Ph.D in Human Rights; Public Law from University of Pretoria, South Africa
