Shuaib slams N1bn suit against NIPSS over withdrawal from SEC 47

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA– The laminitis of PRNigeria, Malam Yushau A. Shuaib, has filed a N1billion suit against the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Plateau State, earlier Federal High Court successful Abuja, pursuing the delisting of his sanction from the Senior Executive Course, SEC, 47,of the Institute.

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1329/2025, Shuaib, a renowned nationalist relations expert, is demanding general, peculiar and aggravated damages against NIPSS.

He is arsenic praying the tribunal to grant further N100million outgo of the litigation, stressing that helium had earlier 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.

In the suit helium filed done a squad of lawyers led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Yunus Abdulsalam, the plaintiff, among different things, prayed the tribunal to acceptable speech his withdrawal from SEC 47 and to reinstate him with afloat rights, benefits, and privileges.

The plaintiff besides sought an bid of perpetual injunction to restrain the NIPSS, its agents oregon officials from further harassment, intimidation oregon cyberbullying.

In the originating summons, the plaintiff raised 8 issues for the tribunal to determine.

Specifically, helium argued that the work of a quality nonfiction by PRNigeria, an autarkic media organisation, could not lawfully beryllium attributed to him arsenic a misconduct erstwhile helium neither authored nor endorsed the said report.

The plaintiff arsenic queried whether NIPSS’s alleged entree and usage of his backstage email without consent was not successful usurpation of his law close to privateness nether Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution.

He 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).

More so, the plaintiff e 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 ₦18.3m people fees, amounted to 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).

Therefore, the plaintiff sought a declaration that actions the NIPSS took against him were unlawful, unjustifiable, discriminatory, and unsupported by immoderate regularisation guiding the institute.

In a 40-paragraph affidavit helium attached successful enactment of the suit, Shuaib, averred 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 ₦18.3m 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 told that helium tribunal that the said nonfiction was a nonrecreational reflection containing non 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.

Consequently, t...