Nigeria, July 31 -- We often assume adulthood comes with an automatic claim to dignity. After years of education, professional growth and personal achievement, we expect institutions to treat adults as reasoning beings capable of dialogue, disagreement and independent judgment. Yet after reading Yushau A. Shuaib's MNI versus MNIPR in NIPSS: Tackling Institutional Bullying, we found ourselves confronting an unsettling question: Can an institution, in the name of discipline, strip adults of the dignity they have spent decades earning?

Our encounter with the memoir began at a special event where Shuaib - Managing Director of Image Merchants Promotion Ltd (IMPR) and founder of the PRNigeria Young Communication Fellowship - challenged young a...