Kiki Mordi Wins One Young World Journalist of the Year Award

Kiki Mordi Wins One Young World Journalist of the Year Award

Kiki Mordi who was recently shortlisted alongside 15 young journalists from around the world for the 2020 One Young World Journalist Award is our WCW for today. Kiki Mordi emerged one of the five winners of the One Young World Journalist of the Year 2020 Award.

One Young World is an organization that identifies, promotes and connects the world’s most impactful young leaders to create a better world, with more responsible and more effective leadership.

The One Young World Journalist of the Year Awards was created to identify and promote the world’s most impactful journalists. The Award honors five young leaders aged 35 and under who have been judged on the positive social impact of their work. These selected young leaders fearlessly and boldly inspire others through their work in the field of journalism. They have changed the way stories are reported and empower others by giving them a voice. The final 5 young leaders are selected by a panel of respected international journalists and broadcasters from a shortlist of 15 young journalists from around the world. The initially selected 15 young journalists are shortlisted because of the tremendous impact they have made to the field of journalism. Each one of them is nominated through the One Young World organization’s global call for submissions.

Responding to her success Kiki tweeted “From shortlist to winner, super proud to represent Nigeria, see you in Munich.”

Kiki is an advocate for gender equality and LGBT rights in Nigeria. She serves as an investigative data researcher on the Special Investigative Panel for Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission on Sexual and General Based Violence across the country.

Kiki Mordi is also a filmmaker and writer. In 2016, she won an award for Outstanding Radio Program Presenter (South-South) at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merits Awards. In 2019, she produced a documentary titled “Life at The Bay” that uncovers the struggles of women living in Tarkwa Bay Island in Lagos. She hosts and produces a Human Rights Radio Program, “Chapter Four” on Women Radio in Lagos.

Read Also: LAOLU SENBANJO

In 2016, she won the award of Outstanding Radio Program Presenter at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards. In 2020, she made the Avance Media’s List for 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians.

Kiki received a great deal of attention and became famous in 2019, when she worked as an undercover reporter for BBC Africa Eye, and she exposed a “sex for grades” practice in the Nigerian universities. She is currently an investigative journalist with the BBC.

We are proud and inspired.