A 68-year-old woman has given birth to a set of twins at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.

A statement signed by the Chairman, Medical Advisory Council of LUTH, Prof WASIU ADEYEMO, said the woman was pregnant for the first time after undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation.

He said that she was delivered on April 14 through an elective Caesarean section, at 37 weeks gestation.

Adeyemo said that the IVF and embryo transfer were done at a facility outside LUTH.

He further said that the woman was, thereafter, referred to LUTH at early gestation and was subsequently managed till she was delivered, saying that this is the first in LUTH, Lagos and Africa.