ONNOGHEN, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of Honourable Justice OLABANJI ORILONISE of the Kwara State High Court of Justice, sitting at Ilorin in suit No. KWS/25/98 delivered on 19th day of January 2000, in which he struck out the above stated suit for non-compliance with Rule 04211 of the Civil Service Rules, in that the appellant failed to obtain an approval from the Federal Ministry of Establishments before instituting the action, and therefore incompetent.
The facts of the case are that the respondents who, together with the appellant, are members of staff of the University of Ilorin, Ilorin caused to be published of and concerning the appellant in an unregistered Newsletter called “THE THINK - TANK” which is said to have a wide circulation throughout the academic community in Nigeria, in its Volume One, No.2,
April - June 1997 edition, at pages 5, 20 and 21 thereof a write-up or article which the appellant considers libellous of her. Co…