PhD student sues ABU for unlawful withdrawal

A federal high court in Kaduna on Monday entertained documents
tendered by counsel to Jamilu Auwalu Adamu (plaintiff), a Ph.D of
the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Sule Shuaib who is challenging
his unlawful withdrawal from the institution.

In a special bulletin of ABU made available as part of the
plaintiff’s reply to the defendants joint statement on defence and
defense to counter claim, the institution noted that deadline for
postgraduate registration for 2014/2015 session closes on Monday
May 10th, 2015.

However, in a list of registered students for the academic
session under review signed by Dr. Abubakar Yahaya (2nd defendant)
and Professor Babangida Sani (3rd defendant) both of the Department
of Mathematics of the university as Major and Minor supervisors
respectively, five other students were registered after the closing
date.

The court document claims. “The plaintiff pleads that he
received numerous awards and prizes including best level 1 and
level 11 students mathematics 2002 and 2003, the Bayero University
prize for best level 111 mathematics 2004 to 2005, Dr. Saeed
Ul-Islam price for best graduating student 2006, Governor Ibrahim
Shekarau prize for best graduating student 2006.

“The plaintiff is the best graduating student in his master’s
degree with CGPA of more than 4 in a scale of 5. The plaintiff
published 12 international journals to his credit out his Ph.D
research work thereby internationally inventing Jameel’s Critereon,
Jameel’s Advanced stressed models and non-normal stocks Brownian
motion that no one else in the whole world can claim which could be
found on Google and Google scholar.

“The plaintiff in further denial of paragraph 30 of the
statement of the defence claims states that in accordance to the
American Psychology Association (APA) publication manual, fifth
edition pages 350 to 351 stated that authorship reserved for
persons who receive primary credit and hold primary responsibility
for the published work. Authorship encompasses those who have made
substantial scientific contribution to a study.”

However, memorandum of conditional appearance filed by counsels
to the 1st Defendant, ABU, A. Is’haq Esq and Abubakar Sulieman Esq
on October 23rd, 2017 argued that the plaintiff’s claim that the
article entitled: “Reliable and Sophisticated Advance Stress
Compounding Engineering Chaotic Models” does not exist on Google
scholar
They urged the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim as same is
without merit and the defendants counter-claim against the
plaintiff for the reason aforementioned and pay N2 million for
general damages, cost of filing the suit and defendants solicitors
fee.

Counsel to the plaintiff, Sule Shuaib urged the court to adjourn
the case saying, “Some of the documents I had wanted to tender are
not in the state I could tender. I had wanted to take a second
witness but he is under the weather and could not come with me. I
will open and close my defence on the next adjourned date.
The presiding judge, Justice Shuaib Salah adjourned the matter to
19th March, 2018 for hearing.

A federal high court in Kaduna on Monday entertained documents
tendered by counsel to Jamilu Auwalu Adamu (plaintiff), a Ph.D of
the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Sule Shuaib who is challenging
his unlawful withdrawal from the institution.

In a special bulletin of ABU made available as part of the
plaintiff’s reply to the defendants joint statement on defence and
defense to counter claim, the institution noted that deadline for
postgraduate registration for 2014/2015 session closes on Monday
May 10th, 2015.

However, in a list of registered students for the academic
session under review signed by Dr. Abubakar Yahaya (2nd defendant)
and Professor Babangida Sani (3rd defendant) both of the Department
of Mathematics of the university as Major and Minor supervisors
respectively, five other students were registered after the closing
date.

The court document claims. “The plaintiff pleads that he
received numerous awards and prizes including best level 1 and
level 11 students mathematics 2002 and 2003, the Bayero University
prize for best level 111 mathematics 2004 to 2005, Dr. Saeed
Ul-Islam price for best graduating student 2006, Governor Ibrahim
Shekarau prize for best graduating student 2006.

“The plaintiff is the best graduating student in his master’s
degree with CGPA of more than 4 in a scale of 5. The plaintiff
published 12 international journals to his credit out his Ph.D
research work thereby internationally inventing Jameel’s Critereon,
Jameel’s Advanced stressed models and non-normal stocks Brownian
motion that no one else in the whole world can claim which could be
found on Google and Google scholar.

“The plaintiff in further denial of paragraph 30 of the
statement of the defence claims states that in accordance to the
American Psychology Association (APA) publication manual, fifth
edition pages 350 to 351 stated that authorship reserved for
persons who receive primary credit and hold primary responsibility
for the published work. Authorship encompasses those who have made
substantial scientific contribution to a study.”

However, memorandum of conditional appearance filed by counsels
to the 1st Defendant, ABU, A. Is’haq Esq and Abubakar Sulieman Esq
on October 23rd, 2017 argued that the plaintiff’s claim that the
article entitled: “Reliable and Sophisticated Advance Stress
Compounding Engineering Chaotic Models” does not exist on Google
scholar
They urged the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim as same is
without merit and the defendants counter-claim against the
plaintiff for the reason aforementioned and pay N2 million for
general damages, cost of filing the suit and defendants solicitors
fee.

Counsel to the plaintiff, Sule Shuaib urged the court to adjourn
the case saying, “Some of the documents I had wanted to tender are
not in the state I could tender. I had wanted to take a second
witness but he is under the weather and could not come with me. I
will open and close my defence on the next adjourned date.
The presiding judge, Justice Shuaib Salah adjourned the matter to
19th March, 2018 for hearing.