Participant Sues NIPSS Over Withdrawal From Senior Executive Course 47

The laminitis of PRNigeria, Malam Yushau Shuaib, has dragged the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State earlier a Federal High Court successful Abuja, challenging his withdrawal from the Senior Executive Course (SEC) 47 of the institution.

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1329/2025, Shuaib, a renowned nationalist relations expert, is demanding ₦1 cardinal successful general, special, and aggravated damages against NIPSS implicit alleged affectional trauma and reputational damage.

He is besides seeking an further ₦100 cardinal arsenic litigation costs, having issued a pre-action announcement connected June 16, 2025, to the Institute’s Director General, Professor Ayo Omotayo, which was allegedly ignored by the management.

The case, filed connected his behalf by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Yunus Abdulsalam, seeks a tribunal bid mounting speech his withdrawal from SEC 47 and reinstating him with afloat rights, benefits, and privileges.
Shuaib is besides asking for a perpetual injunction restraining NIPSS, its agents, oregon officials from further harassment, intimidation, oregon cyberbullying.

In his originating summons, the plaintiff raised 8 issues for determination. He argued that the work of a quality nonfiction by PRNigeria, an autarkic media organisation, cannot lawfully beryllium attributed to him arsenic misconduct erstwhile helium neither authored nor endorsed it.

He besides questioned whether NIPSS’ alleged entree and usage of his backstage email without consent violated his law close to privateness nether Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution.

Shuaib further contended that disciplinary enactment against him for nonrecreational opinions expressed successful a published nonfiction breached his close to state of look guaranteed by Section 39(1).
He argued that barring participants from interacting with him and removing him from authoritative platforms amounted to harassment, cyberbullying, and forced isolation.

He maintained that denying him information successful the planetary survey tour, contempt his afloat outgo of ₦18.3 cardinal people fees, constituted favoritism and breach of contract.

He besides faulted his suspension and withdrawal from the people based connected alleged “externalisation of the subject” without a just hearing, describing it arsenic a usurpation of his law close nether Section 36(1).

Shuaib is truthful seeking declarations that the actions of NIPSS were unlawful, unjustifiable, discriminatory, and unsupported by immoderate regularisation guiding the institute.

In a 40-paragraph affidavit, Shuaib stated that helium was nominated by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) to correspond it astatine the course, a information approved by the President of Nigeria.

He attached his admittance letter, impervious of outgo of ₦18.3 million, and grounds of compliance with NIPSS requirements, including handing implicit responsibilities astatine his company, Image Merchants Promotion Limited, publishers of PRNigeria.

He alleged that contempt complying with organization rules, helium was subjected to harassment, intimidation, and arbitrary disciplinary actions.

According to him, connected March 24, helium received a query implicit a PRNigeria nonfiction titled “NIPSS Goes Digital; Launches Paperless Platform aft Submitting Landmark Report to President Tinubu.”

Shuaib insisted helium neither authored nor edited the article, which different media outlets had wide reported.

He further alleged that connected April 25, NIPSS again queried him astir an interior email concerning an editorial, “Understanding the ‘Blue’ successful the Blue Economy.”

He stated the nonfiction was a nonrecreational reflection containing nary delicate information, yet NIPSS intercepted it earlier it could beryllium published.

Shuaib claimed that the queries were unfounded and not supported by the NIPSS Code of Conduct. He further alleged that his withdrawal missive dated June 2, 2025, was curiously addressed lone to NIPR without being officially served connected him.

The plaintiff is asking the tribunal to reinstate him into SEC 47 with afloat privileges, to state that NIPSS has nary authorization to penalise him for contented published by an autarkic platform, to clasp that accessing his backstage emails violated his law rights, and to state his withdrawal unlawful, unjustifiable, and discriminatory. No day has been fixed for the proceeding of the case.