Catholic Church Recognises Max Amuchie With Icon Of Service Award

The Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Uvuru, Mbaise, Imo State, will on Friday, 30th  December 2022, honour Mr. Max Amuchie with the Icon of Service Award.

According to a letter addressed to Amuchie, Founder/CEO of Sundiata Post Media Ltd, by the Parish Priest, Holy Ghost Parish, Uvuru, Very Rev. Fr. Clement Okoro; Chairman, Organising Committee, Sir Martins Uba Nwamadi and Secretary, Organising Committee, Mr. Leo Ukaegbu, the parish said the honour was in recognition of Max Amuchie’s mentorship, contribution, advisory role and financial support to the church.

The church will also use the occasion to launch an N200 million appeal fund to raise money for the renovation of the church building.

A devout Catholic, Amuchie, who hails from Uvuru in the Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, is a media and technology entrepreneur.

A widely travelled journalist, he has had a distinguished career in the Nigerian media and a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigeria’s highest professional media association and is currently the North-Central Zonal co-ordinator of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP).

Amuchie’s passion for information technology as a new frontier for journalism led to the establishment of Sundiata Post Media Group, which was unveiled on 7 July 2015.

In July 2020 Sundiata Post won the Google News Initiative JERF Award in recognition of the platform’s high-quality editorial content in the context of challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outside the media, Amuchie is a committed Rotarian and a member of Toastmasters International. He is the president of the Rotary Club of Abuja CBD and Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Rotary International District 9125 Governor’s Magazine.

Amuchie is also Sergeant-at-arms at Unity Toastmasters Club, Abuja, the first Toastmasters club in Northern Nigeria.