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 CASE STUDY: SEX FOR GRADES- BBC DOCUMENTARY ‘Sex for grades’ has become a threatening phenomenon in Africa’s higher education. Much as many efforts are made to curb or control this issue, contradicting evidences exist on the willingness of female students to report this act to university authorities. A survey pointed out that [ 75.65%] students have a solid say to report lecturers who make advances of sex for grades in universities while the remaining will not or are undecided. For students that would report, they cited reasons including, these acts are against their human rights, it is not right, ethical abuse of authority. At the other end, there were reasons that include, not knowing who to report to, fear of victimization, they will ignore the lecturer and lack of solid evidences. Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers on students. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven du...

The deadly COVID-19 has been on the desk on many discussion platforms in almost all countries in the world since its breakout in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. With the World Health Organization recording 2,245872 confirmed cases, and 152707 deaths across 213 countries, areas, or territories as of April 19, 2020, the virus can be termed a no-friend in a country. Countries, Health organizations, and Institutions have shown their muscles in finding a cure or vaccine that could stop the spread of this pandemic but it seems all efforts have proven futile. Considering the cases in Ghana, the country recorded its first two cases of COVID-19 on March 12, 2020, on two individuals from Norway and Turkey. The country as of April 19, 2020, has recorded 834 confirmed cases, 99 recoveries, and 9 deaths across the country in just 1 month and 1 week since the arrival of the pandemic in the country. Currently with the fact that the virus does not have a cure or vaccine to battle ...