Nigeria, June 19 -- A public relations practitioner, Yushau Shuaib, has issued a formal pre-action notice to the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), demanding his immediate reinstatement into the Senior Executive Course (SEC 47).

In the legal notice signed by his lawyer on Monday, Mr Shuaib, publisher of PRNigeria, also demanded a compensation of N1 billion for alleged reputational damage, emotional trauma, and financial losses resulting from what he described as a wrongful withdrawal from the elite training programme.

The letter was addressed to Ayo Omotayo, the director general of NIPSS. It outlines a string of alleged infractions by the institute, including cyberstalking, unlawful access to private communicat...