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Global Open-Science Network, names Amuchie, Sundiata Post CEO, ‘Expert Peer Reviewer’
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.
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. 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.
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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