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Max Amuchie Secures Prestigious Global Peer Review Role at ScienceOpen

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5 months ago

June 24, 2026

Dr Max Amuchie ScienceOpen appointment marks a major academic milestone as Nigerian scholar joins global peer review network in social sciences

ABUJA, Nigeria — In a major milestone for indigenous African and scholarship and media leadership, the global open-science discovery network ScienceOpen has officially appointed Dr. Max Nwabueze Amuchie as an Expert Member and Peer Reviewer in Social and Behavioural Sciences.

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In an email conveying the appointment on Tuesday, ScienceOpen stated that the decision was based on Dr. Amuchie’s extensive publication history verified through his Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) profile.

Dr. Amuchie, the CEO and Theorist-In-Chief of Sundiata Post Media Ltd and Lead Researcher for the Sundiata Post Intelligence Unit (SPIU), joins an elite global cohort of international scholars tasked with evaluating, validating, and shaping scientific, governance, and policy literature on the world stage.

This international elevation comes on the heels of Dr. Amuchie’s extensive work in developing groundbreaking, macro-theoretical frameworks designed to analyse complex geopolitical realities in the Global South.

He is the architect of The Insecurity Triad framework for African security analysis, The Trinity of State Decay (TSD) theory, and the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI)—original, quantitative, and analytical instruments used for understanding, categorising, and measuring conflict, structural degradation, and functional sovereignty.

To anchor these frameworks in global academia, Dr. Amuchie’s research works have already been widely published and archived across premier scholarly platforms.

His papers and data indices are preserved in world-class open-science repositories including Harvard Dataverse and Zenodo.

Furthermore, his output is accessible on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and Mendeley—the latter owned by Elsevier, the world’s largest corporate academic publishing house.

His research footprints also extend to the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR), operated by GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany, as well as Figshare.

In addition, his papers are available on major global scholarly networks such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, and are actively indexed on Google Scholar.

Commenting on his appointment by ScienceOpen, Amuchie emphasised that the recognition represents a significant step forward for the Global South intellectual sovereignty.

“For too long, the Global South has been treated primarily as a subject of external geopolitical analysis rather than a creator of macro-theoretical blueprints,” Amuchie said.

“This elevation on a premier open-science platform like ScienceOpen provides an unassailable global platform to validate indigenous African and Global South research. It ensures that our original frameworks—born out of rigorous field observations and deep academic inquiry—are recognised as primary tools for understanding state structures worldwide.”

Amuchie is a seasoned professional in the Nigerian media landscape, having served as a Member of the Editorial Board and later Abuja Bureau Chief at BusinessDay; held senior editorial positions at ThisDay, and served as Managing Editor at Leadership newspapers.

He was also the CEO and Editor-in-Chief at Truetales Publications Ltd. He is an alumnus of the University of Calabar and the University of Lagos.

He also maintains The Sunday Stew, a highly regarded weekly syndicated column exploring faith, character, and the structural forces shaping contemporary society.

As an official Peer Reviewer on ScienceOpen, Amuchie’s vetting powers will bridge the gap between high-velocity media dissemination and rigorous, citable academic indexing.

This appointment establishes a formidable foundation for the Sundiata Post Intelligence Unit (SPIU) as it continues to pioneer data-driven, sovereign policy analysis across Africa and the wider Global South.

Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with its primary technical and editorial operations hub in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, ScienceOpen is a leading independent open-science discovery network and research platform.

Founded on the principles of Open Access, the platform democratises knowledge by breaking down academic paywalls so that researchers, policymakers, and journalists can freely share and critique global research.

ScienceOpen operates an innovative, transparent post-publication peer review system. It aggregates a massive, interconnected global database of over 85 million research records and articles.

To maintain absolute academic integrity, only scholars who meet strict criteria—including a verified track record of published, peer-reviewed scientific literature linked to their international ORCID ID—are appointed as Expert Members and Peer Reviewers.

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These experts possess the formal authority to critique manuscripts, evaluate new analytical theories, and curate specialised research collections that shape validated scientific and policy data on the world stage.

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Probe Into Fake Federal Agencies Not Over, ICPC Insists

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1 day ago

November 8, 2026

Mariam Balogun

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said its investigation into the alleged operation of fake federal agencies within the Federal Government is still ongoing, despite the reinstatement of two permanent secretaries suspended over the matter.

The commission maintained that it stood by its earlier findings that other purported fake agencies had been discovered during its investigations, adding that further action would be announced when the process was concluded.

ICPC spokesperson, John Odey, disclosed this while responding to an enquiry on the status of the investigation in Abuja.

He said the commission was still examining the allegations and had yet to decide whether the findings would result in further court action.

“The ICPC stands by what it said about finding out in the course of our investigations that there were some other fake agencies. Investigations are ongoing.

“As usual, when the ICPC is ready to either go to court or not to go to court, we would let you know. But for now, investigations are ongoing. Let it be on record that the ICPC stands by what it said before,” Odey said.

The commission had on August 21, 2026, announced the discovery of a purported fake federal agency operating under the name National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office.

The ICPC alleged that the organisation was promoted by George Buchi Nwabueze, with the suspected involvement of senior public servants in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF).

Following the disclosure, President Bola Tinubu ordered Nwabueze’s arrest and the suspension of three permanent secretaries: Mohammed Danjuma, Nandungu Gagare and Richard Pheelangwa.

The discovery emerged during the commission’s wider investigation into the activities of the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), which was allegedly operated by Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew.

The ICPC had earlier reported that its investigation into the PFIPC uncovered two other purported organisations allegedly linked to Adeyemi: the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency and Public-Private Partnership.

According to the commission, the investigation found that the PFIPC was not established by any law, executive order or other valid government instrument. It also alleged that documents presented to support the organisation’s existence, including an appointment letter, were forged.

The commission further said there was no evidence that Federal Government funds had been approved or disbursed to the purported council.

However, Nwabueze denied the allegation that the National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office was fake, insisting that the project office had existed within the OSGF since July 16, 2010.

He questioned why an initiative that had allegedly been operating for 16 years was suddenly being described as fictitious.

Meanwhile, two of the three permanent secretaries suspended following the discovery have since been reinstated.

Mohammed Danjuma, Permanent Secretary, Finance (Special Duties), was reinstated following presidential approval conveyed in a letter dated October 22, 2026, by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Olumuyiwa Abel. His reinstatement took effect on October 21.

Similarly, Richard Pheelangwa, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, resumed duty on November 3 after the Federal Government lifted his suspension.

The Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, formally welcomed Pheelangwa back to the ministry, according to a statement by the minister’s media adviser, Leah Katung-Babatunde.

The reinstatements have, however, not brought the ICPC investigation to an end, as the commission says it is continuing efforts to establish the full circumstances surrounding the alleged operations of the purported agencies and identify anyone who may have facilitated them.