Nigeria: sex for grades

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

University lecturers sexually harassing and blackmailing their students. It's a problem which plagues West Africa but it's almost never proven. Until now. This week Assignment teams up with the World Service investigative series, Africa Eye, which sent female journalists posing as students inside a top university in Nigeria to secretly record men who sexually harass and abuse young women. A year-long investigation reveals how lecturers - who can make or break academic careers - groom victims in academic settings; abusing their power to try to get what they want. Sex for grades is described as being so normalised it has become an epidemic, where vast numbers of young women have been harassed and abused.

Presenter: Kiki Mordi Producer: Jim Frank Editor: Hugh Levinson

(Image: Presenter - Kiki Mordi. Credit: Charlie Northcott/BBC)

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this podcast from the BBC.
0:03.6	In this edition of Assignment, a shocking story from Nigeria.
0:08.0	Here's Kiki Mordi. BBC World Service, this week on assignment, sex for grades, university professors sexually harassing and blackmailing their students.
0:24.8	Every single year, every single department, every student student there's always a story.
0:29.6	Where I live in Nigeria, it's an open secret, but rarely proven and nobody ever seems to do anything
0:36.9	about it.
0:37.9	And I think the very first advice I got, don't ever go to your male lecturer's office alone.
0:44.0	Nobody wants to listen, nobody wants to believe victim.
0:48.0	It is crazy.
0:49.0	I know a lot of people have been abused and nobody'm not going to need straight to do anything.
0:54.0	My name's Kiki Mordi. For the past year, I've been working with BBC Africa's team of female
0:59.3	investigators posing as students inside the University of Lagos in Nigeria,
1:05.0	secretly recording men who sexually harass and abuse your sisters,
1:10.0	your friends and your daughters.
1:12.0	Some of the undercover recordings your daughters.
1:18.0	Some of the undercover recordings made in very stressful circumstances can be a little hard to hear,
1:20.0	so in places we've used the producer's voice to help.
1:24.0	But everything you hear happened and may shock you. Woman,
1:33.0	woman. The Savior is a woman.
1:37.0	A Savior is a woman.
1:39.0	It's 2 o'clock.
1:41.0	Good afternoon and this is W.F.M. 91.7. My name is Kiki Mori and today on the woman
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