Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Founder/CEO, Sundiata Post Media Ltd, Max Amuchie, has been honoured with an Honorary Award of Science (Doctorate), by the Gulf American University, Dubai, United Arab Emirate.
The award followed a year-long assessment on three areas – contribution to knowledge, humanitarian service and community development – which ended with Amuchie’s successful appearance before an Honorary Award Interview Panel set up by the Board of GAU in December 2024.
Ikengaonline checks revealed that as President of the Rotary Club of Abuja CBD in the 2022-2023 Rotary Year, Amuchie led a Board that successfully ended open defecation in the Central Primary School, Gidan Gimba, Nasarawa State.
It was further discovered that the club under his leadership built three modern toilets for the boys, girls and staff of the primary school. The project was commissioned on 23 June 2023.
He also started a Basic Education Project consisting of a block of classrooms and a headteacher’s office in the school.
The project reached advanced level of completion before his tenure ended on 30 June 2023.
Amuchie said that ending open defecation in the Gidan Gimba Primary School and starting the Basic Education Project meant so much to him as it was a significant achievement of the Rotary Club under his presidency.
Further checks revealed that Amuchie’s media platform, Sundiata Post, which was officially unveiled at an impressive ceremony in Abuja on July 7, 2015, won, in July 2020, the Google News JERF Award.
Amuchie, a chartered human resource consultant, is a Doctoral Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management.
He is also an Associate of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and member of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria.
He is a member and North-Central Zonal Co-ordinator of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), where, for three years, he has been a member of the Annual Conference Planning Committee.
A former Vice President, Public Relations of Unity Toastmasters Club, Abuja, Dr Max Amuchie is also a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE).
Amuchie, in an appreciation letter to GAU, expressed hope that the award would open a vista of relationship between the Gulf American University and Sundiata Post Media Ltd as well as the Rotary Club of Abuja CBD.
He thanked the university for the honour, saying it will spur him to work harder.
