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By Gloria Ikibah

The Insecurity Triad, an analytical model created by scholar and journalist Dr Max Amuchie, has received strong backing from respected African public relations academic Dr Omoniyi Ibietan, further cementing the framework’s growing relevance within scholarly debate.

Dr Amuchie, who leads Sundiata Post and writes the syndicated “Sunday Stew column”, recently explored the concept in the latest edition of the weekly publication carried by Premium Times. In a subsequent review, Dr Ibietan described the framework as a significant contribution to contemporary African political and security discourse.

Ibietan, who serves as Secretary-General of the African Public Relations Association and lectures on the Rome Business School DBA Programme, situated ‘The Insecurity Triad’ alongside the works of leading thinkers in African political economy and post-colonial studies, signalling its emerging place within serious academic engagement.

“The first part of this took me back to Achille Mbembe, one of Africa’s leading representations of activistic scholarship,” Dr. Ibietan stated.

“Amuchie offered me a refreshing, lovely insight of the works of Mazrui, Ake, Bayart, (William) Reno — especially his treatise on the ‘Relocation of Authority’ — and of course Mbembe. It was a meta-analytical enterprise. So compelling was it that it shaped my theoretical framing for a new paper I just submitted on Crisis Communication in the Agatu Crisis. Needless to say, this is also beautiful.”

Ibietan, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, made his views known in a message sent to Ololade Bamidele, editorial page editor of Premium Times in response to the May 24 edition of Amuchie’s The Sunday Stew Column titled ‘The Insecurity Triad: Azikiwe, Awolowo, and Chinweizu — Nigeria’s Elite Class of Framework Builders’.

“Thank you Ololade Bamidele. Please tell Dr. Amuchie to keep it coming. The first part of this took me back to Mbembe (one of Africa’s leading representation of activistic scholarship). Amuchie offered me a refreshing, lovely insight of the works of Mazrui, Ake, Bayart, Reno (not Omokri, please but William Reno, especially his treatise on the ‘Relocation of Authority’) and of course Mbembe. It was a meta-analytical enterprise. So, compelling was it that it shaped my theoretical framing for a new paper I  just submitted on Crisis Communication in the Agatu Crisis. Needless to say this is also beautiful,” Ibietan wrote in the message to Bamidele.

A Paradigm Shift in African Security Analysis
Amuchie’s The Insecurity Triad framework moves away from recycled, surface-level security paradigms, offering a structured, indigenous lens to examine African conflicts through three converging pillars: Money, Land, and Mind. By mapping the interplay between illicit capital flows (Money), territorial sovereignty disputes (Land), and weaponised radicalisation or identity manipulation (Mind), the framework makes highly chaotic ecosystems of violence legible to researchers and policy-makers alike in Nigeria and the Sahel region.

The Insecurity Triad is now disseminated across six global academic repositories — the US-based Social Science Research Network (SSRN); Harvard Dataverse, owned by Harvard University; Zenodo, operated by the European Council for Nuclear Science; SocArXiv, managed by the Open Science Framework, based the University of Maryland in the United States; ResearchGate, the global networking platform for scholars based in Germany and Academia.edu. On April 26 The Insecurity Triad formally received the endorsement of the Rotary Action Group for Peace, Nigeria chapter after Amuchie’s keynote speech as guest of honour at the Group’s bi-weekly fellowship.

Amuchie has also developed a companion model, the Trinity of State Decay, which theorises the structural condition produced when the Insecurity Triad operates unchecked — a decoupling of authority into the Institutional Mirage and rival Shadow Orders.

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Operatives of the Ebonyi State Police Command have nabbed six suspects over the alleged killing of the traditional ruler of Ishinkwo Community, HRH Eze Josephat Nnanna Ikegwu.

The arrests followed an intelligence-led investigation into the murder of the monarch, which occurred at his residence on April 2, 2026.

The development was disclosed in a press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Ebonyi State Command, SP Joshua Ukandu, dated May 26, 2026, and made available to journalists in Abakaliki.

According to the statement, the suspects arrested are Ucha Johnson, Ogobuchi Igwe, Nkpuma Nwankwo, Edwin Onwoshi, Itumo Joseph, and Emmanuel Nwaoba.

Police said that during the operation, officers recovered one AK-47 rifle loaded with eight rounds of live ammunition.

Speaking on the arrests, the Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Command, CP Hope Urunwa Okafor, reaffirmed the command’s commitment to ensuring justice in the case.

“No individual involved in criminality will be allowed to evade justice,” Okafor said.

She further assured residents of the state that the command would sustain efforts to combat violent crimes and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

It was gathered that the suspects are expected to be arraigned on Tuesday at the Magistrate Court in Abakaliki.

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A presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, has said he would not attend the announcement of the party’s presidential primary election results, citing allegations of widespread vote rigging.

In a statement on his X handle on Tuesday, Hayatu-Deen expressed concern over reports of electoral irregularities from across the country.

The ADC aspirant noted that he witnessed some of the incidents.
“I will not be attending the announcement of the ADC Presidential Election Results today. I am concerned by reports from across the country of widespread vote rigging, some of which I myself observed, and will therefore be taking advice on my next steps,” the statement read.

The development comes amid keen competition for the ADC presidential ticket involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and Hayatu-Deen.

The ADC presidential primary election collation exercise will take place in Abuja. Results are expected from across the nation.

Ahead of the nationwide presidential primary held on Monday, the ADC had urged aspirants, party leaders, delegates, and members to conduct themselves peacefully and uphold party unity.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, described the exercise as a defining moment for both the ADC and Nigerians seeking a credible political alternative.

According to him, the party remained committed to internal democracy and a transparent leadership selection process.

“The ADC remains proud to stand today as the only truly democratic party in Nigeria because it is the only political party whose choice of presidential candidate is determined through open primaries,” Abdullahi stated.

The party also stressed that the conduct of aspirants and party members during the exercise would reflect the leadership culture the ADC seeks to promote.