Kiki Mordi

Mordi was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.[1][2] After the death of her father, she gained admission into University of Benin, but later dropped out due to sexual harassment from a certain lecturer.[3]

Mordi is a Nigerian journalist, media personality, filmmaker and writer. She is currently a BBC Africa Eye reporter and the head of presenting with WFM 91.7.[2] In 2017, she started an online petition to end police extortion and exploitation after some Nigerian policemen invaded their home and accused her and her boyfriend of being cultists.[4] In 2015, she was nominated for The Most Promising Young Presenter (TV/Radio) at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards.[5] In 2016, she won the award of Outstanding Radio Program Presenter (South-South) at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards.[1] She was nominated for the On-air Personality of the Year (Female) at the Scream All-Youth Awards.[6] On 3 November 2019, she was nominated for The Future Awards Africa in Prize for Journalism category.[7]

In 2019, she 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.[8]

On 17 May 2019, the film directed by Nora Awolowo was selected by Real Time International Film Festival.[9]

On 6 October 2019, the film was selected to show at the 2019 Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF).[10]

On 7 October 2019, Mordi and her team at the BBC Africa Eye released a 13-minute documentary exposing sexual harassment of students by lecturers in University of Lagos and University of Ghana.[11] 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.[12] Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu is a senior lecturer in the faculty of arts, University of Lagos and a head pastor of Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, Dr. Ransford Gyampo is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor is a lecturer at the College of Education in the University of Ghana.[13] 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.[14][15] After the exposé, Dr. Ransford Gyampo threatened to sue the BBC.[16] Due to the documentary, University of Lagos suspended Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu and Foursquare Gospel Church asked him to step down from the pulpit.[17][18] A "Cold Room" caught in the video where lecturers sexually harass students was shut down by the University of Lagos.[19] Nigerian musician, Adekunle Gold and wife Simi hailed Mordi for her Sex for Grades Documentary.[20][21] A former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar and a former senate president of Nigeria, Bukola Saraki, called on the Nigerian government to take immediate action against sexual harassment in Nigerian universities.[22][23] In an interview with Sahara Reporters, Mordi revealed that she has received subtle threats since concluding the investigation.[24]

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.[25]

On 9 October 2019, the Nigerian senate heeded the call of Nigerians and re-introduced the anti-sexual harassment bill and was read on the floor of the senate.[26]

On 9 July 2020, the Nigerian Senate passed the anti-sexual harassment bill, while proposing up to 14 years jail term for offenders.[27]

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