Journalist, Kiki Mordi’s ‘Sex For Grades’ documentary has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the Current Affairs category.
The 29-year-old BBC reporter exposed the rot in West African universities when she went undercover to a number of universities in Nigeria and Ghana in 2019.
Through BBC Africa Eye, Mordi fished out lecturers who were in the habit of demanding sexual intercourse from students in exchange for good grades or to gain admission into the institution.
To get the stories of sexual harassment, Mordi and her team spoke to various lecturers and students while armed with body and spy cameras.
In one case, Professor Boniface Igbeneghu, a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, was seen trying to sexually harass one of the reporters who posed as a 17-year-old student.
When it was released in 2019, the documentary sparked outrage across social media platforms as many Nigerians including top politicians called on the Federal Government to take immediate action against sexual harassment in Nigerian Universities.
Mordi has since received recognition for her work within and outside Nigeria and the documentary has also just earned her an Emmy nomination in the Current Affairs category.
She is nominated alongside 7 others from different countries: Brazil, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
