By Max Amuchie The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has come of age as a leading association of professional journalists who have embraced online publishing in Nigeria. From October 6 to 9, members from different parts of the country converged on Lagos for what turned out to be a
Media CEO, scholar-journalist and theorist Max Nwabueze Amuchie, will on Wednesday, October 7, present “The Sundiata Post Model: Building the African Newsroom for the Long Term” to members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). The presentation will form part of activities around GOCOP’s 10th Annual Conference, scheduled for October 7 and 8, 2026, […]
By Max Amuchie On 7 June 2026, this column unveiled the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI) as the quantitative extension of the Trinity of Sovereignty Decay (TSD) theory, formerly known as the Trinity of State Decay. It is a measurement instrument designed to track the degree to which a state’s formal authority has separated from its […]
By Max Amuchie There is something almost deceptively ordinary about a notebook. It is paper. A surface for writing. It may sit on a desk, in a drawer, beside a bed or, under less ordinary circumstances, in a prison cell. Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the great reminders that the physical circumstances in […]
By Max Amuchie There are ideas that begin in institutions.There are ideas that begin in universities, think tanks, laboratories and conference rooms, surrounded by shelves of books and the reassuring architecture of intellectual authority. And then there are ideas that begin at a desk.A desk can be ordinary furniture. It can also be a place […]
By Max Amuchie It began, unexpectedly, with a telephone call one evening in May.I was at my desk in Abuja when my phone rang. On the other end was Kemi Yusufu, Publicity Secretary of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). She had an unusual message. A friend had contacted her to say that the […]








