Nkiru "Kiki" Mordi is a Nigerian

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, filmmaker, writer and

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. She dropped out of school because she was harassed by a lecturer in her school. This ordeal was what led her to shoot the ''Sex for Grades'' video with the '' BBC Africa Eye''. The documentary exposed the depth of sexual harassment among

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ns and

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ian lecturers. In 2016, she won the award of Outstanding Radio Program Presenter (South-South) at the

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Career

Kiki Mordi is a

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investigative journalist and on-air personality. She is known for the ''BBC Africa Eye'' program ''Sex for Grades'' documentary that amplified the voices of victims of sexual assault in tertiary institutions in

and

. In 2017, Mordi started an online petition to stop the extortion and exploitation of youths by the

policemen. She launched this petition after her ordeal with some Nigerian policemen who invaded her home, arrested her and boyfriend and accused them of being cultists and obstructing justice. In October 2019, Kiki Mordi and her team at the BBC Africa Eye released the 13-minute ''Sex for Grades'' documentary. She also produced a documentary film ''Life at the Bay'' in Lagos, Nigeria. The film tells the story of the inhabitants of Tarkwa Bay and the survival and struggles of their women. The film was later selected by Real Time International Film Festival. and was to show at the 2019

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. In 2020, she was listed as one of the Most Influential Young Africans alongside

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, Adetola Nola, among others

2019 ''Sex for Grades'' documentary

On 7 October 2019, Mordi and her team at the

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Africa Eye released a 13-minute documentary exposing sexual harassment of students by lecturers in

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and

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. Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of University of Lagos, Dr. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor of University of Ghana were the lecturers implicated in a viral video that came with the exposé. Igbeneghu is a senior lecturer in the faculty of arts, University of Lagos and a pastor of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria. Gyampo is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and Butakor is a lecturer at the College of Education in the University of Ghana. Mordi, who was disguised as a 17-year-old admission seeker in the video, stated that it took she and her team nine months to complete the investigation. After the exposé, Gyampo threatened to sue the BBC. Due to the documentary, University of Lagos suspended Igbeneghu and Foursquare Gospel Church asked him to step down from the pulpit. A "Cold Room" caught in the video where lecturers sexually harass students was shut down by the University of Lagos. Nigerian musician,

and wife, Simi, hailed Mordi for her ''Sex for Grades'' documentary. A former vice president of Nigeria,

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and a former senate president of Nigeria,

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, called on the Nigerian government to take immediate action against sexual harassment in Nigerian universities. In an interview with

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, Mordi revealed that she has received subtle threats since concluding the investigation. On 8 October 2019, Mordi and her team at the BBC Africa Eye released a full hour long documentary that featured more lecturers that are guilty of sexually harassing students and led to the suspension of Dr Samuel Oladipo, a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Lagos. On 9 October 2019, the

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heeded the call of Nigerians and re-introduced the anti-sexual harassment bill and was read on the floor of the senate. On 9 July 2020, the Nigerian Senate passed the anti-sexual harassment bill, while proposing up to 14 years jail term for offenders.

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Career

2019 ''Sex for Grades'' documentary

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