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Drawing on his years as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Senate President, he describes a National Assembly he calls "a broken, rigged system," explains why civil society is under attack and what "GONGOs" are, unpacks the Niger Delta's "arrested development" and the 13% derivation debate, and sets out his biggest fears for the 2027 elections: voter turnout, INEC's ad hoc staff, and whether a close three-horse race will produce a result Nigerians believe.CHAPTERS0:00 Preview1:15 Welcome: Dr. Otive Igbuzor2:29 From pharmacist to governance activist5:42 Can Marxism and Christianity go together?13:00 Is Nigeria really making progress?22:43 Is Nigeria's middle class gone?24:22 The widening gap between rich and poor26:42 40 years of SAP and the naira29:12 How privatisation failed Nigerians32:17 How Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world34:25 Should good people go into politics?37:28 Inside the National Assembly: "a broken, rigged system"41:41 Why so many bills go nowhere43:59 The push to control NGOs48:05 Pro-government CSOs, "GONGOs" and "uncivil society"52:25 Niger Delta, 13% derivation and "arrested development"1:00:06 2027 elections: 103 million registered voters1:02:24 INEC ad hoc staff and the turnout problem1:03:50 A three-horse race and the credibility test1:05:44 What citizens must monitor in 20271:07:48 Closing💬 Is Nigeria making progress, or are we going backwards? Tell us in the comments.🔔 Subscribe to The Volume Pod for more on Nigerian politics, governance and the 2027 elections.📲 WhatsApp Channel: https://bit.ly/4hdduocWhatsApp: +234 814 046 0182🎙 Rough Play, now available at:    / @roughplayshow  CREDITSGuest: Dr. Otive Igbuzor, Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD)Host: Femi D. Amele (@femidlive)Associate Producer: Michael O. Jeremiah (@disismoj)Sound Editor: Austin Kyunni (@kyunniaustin)Digital Marketing: Mine JohnsonExecutive Producers: Femi D. Amele & Owor Agbor EsameABOUT THE VOLUME PODVolume Pod LLC is a media and podcasting company specialising in analytical journalism and interactive storytelling through podcasts, documentaries and shows. We publish original titles on politics, entertainment and social debate on The Volume Pod and Rough Play Show channels, and partner with development organisations including Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS Abuja), BudgIT Foundation, Connected Development (CODE), PAACA, The Cable NG and The News Digest. We have hosted 200 leading figures from civil society, politics and entertainment across more than 100 thematic discussions, with over 1 million views across our platforms.Opinions and views expressed in this podcast are solely those of the speakers and do not represent the views of The Volume Pod (Volume Pod LLC). Affirmations by the production team confirm understanding, not endorsement of a viewpoint.Related searches: Otive Igbuzor, Nigeria poverty capital of the world, nigeria problems today, corruption in nigeria, good governance in Nigeria, National Assembly Nigeria, civil society Nigeria, Niger Delta derivation, 2027 election in Nigeria, INEC 2027, Nigerian politics explained

Nigerians no longer trust INEC to conduct a free and fair election — so a group of citizens built an app to watch the watchers. On this 2027 election special of Volume with FemiDlive, lawyer and civic-tech founder Barrister Martin Obono (creator of the "I Report In" app) breaks down exactly how citizens can report election-day results in real time, why the 2023 IReV portal failure still haunts INEC's credibility, and why he believes political parties — especially the opposition — are dangerously unprepared for 2027.We get into the real math behind a possible presidential runoff, why the opposition's fragmentation (Atiku, Obi, and the ADC/NDC split) could hand the ruling party a first-round win, the allegation of a growing APC "war chest" funded by unpaid contractor money, and why voter apathy — not rigging — could decide the election before a single vote is cast.🔴 SUBSCRIBE for weekly Nigeria 2027 election coverage, civic accountability, and political analysis: [channel link]TIMESTAMPS00:00 Why citizens stopped trusting INEC03:00 What is "I Report In" and how does it work?08:00 Stopping confirmation bias — evidence over perception12:00 Why registered voters keep skipping election day17:00 The INEC chairman's political bias controversy23:00 Is I Report In secretly working for a political party?28:00 How secure is the app against hacking?32:00 Is 2027 already a one-party election?36:00 The runoff scenario: can Tinubu hit 25% in every state?42:00 The APC "war chest" and unpaid contractors47:00 Final message: vote your conscienceTOPICS COVERED2027 Nigeria election, INEC news today, I Report In app, election result verification Nigeria, IReV portal, Nigeria presidential runoff 2027, Tinubu second term, opposition parties Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar 2027, Peter Obi 2027, ADC NDC merger, vote buying Nigeria, election war chest, voter apathy Nigeria, Nigerian diaspora voting, civic tech NigeriaVolume with FemiDlive is a civic media conversation series from The Volume Pod, hosted by broadcast journalist Femi D. Amele (FemiDlive), covering Nigerian elections, governance, and accountability for audiences at home and across the diaspora in the UK, Canada, and beyond.#Nigeria2027 #INEC #TinubuElectionJoin us: +234 814 046 0182WhatsApp Channel: https://bit.ly/4hdduoc#Nigeria #NigeriaPolitics #VolumePodcast #NigerianYouth #Pidgin #VolumewithFemiDlive #RoughPlay #NigerianNews #PoliticsInterview #Warri #TheVolumePod #FemiDlive #Tinubu #NigeriaEconomy #NigeriaNews #Politics #EconomyHost: Femi D Amele @femidlive Associate Producer: Michael O. Jeremiah @disismoj Sound Editor: Austin Kyunni @kyunniaustinVideo Editor: Ladi Damola @ladidamolaDigital Marketing: Mine JohnsonExecutive Producer: Femi D Amele & Owor Agbor Esame

Why do so many people in positions of power fail to lead effectively? In this episode of Volume with FemiDlive, host Femi sits down with renowned leadership development coach, author, and Founder of GOTNI Leadership Centre, Dr. Linus Okorie.Dr. Okorie breaks down the leadership crisis across Africa, the difference between occupying a title and possessing true "leadership capital," and the 4 critical levels of leadership everyone must master before taking public responsibility. He also shares powerful insights on bridging generational workplace divides, fostering a culture of volunteerism among youth, the transformative discipline of reading 52 books a year, and details about the National Leadership Conference (NLC).📌 Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction & The African Leadership Crisis05:08 - Positional Authority vs. True Leadership05:48 - The 4 Levels of Leadership (Mind, Self, Others, Task)09:18 - Volunteerism & Youth Mindset: US vs. Nigeria12:48 - Developing "7-Star" African Talents for the Global Stage14:28 - Generational Clashes in the Corporate Workplace19:10 - Why Young People Are Assets, Not Liabilities22:03 - The National Leadership Conference (Abuja)24:04 - The Power of Books: Reading 52 Books a Year26:26 - Transforming GOTNI from Non-Profit to Sustainable Impact28:05 - Conclusion#LeadershipDevelopment #AfricanLeadership #DrLinusOkorie #TheVolumePod #LeadershipMatters #PersonalGrowth #YouthLeadership 🔔 Subscribe to The Volume Pod for deep conversations on leadership, governance, and national transformation.#Leadership #DrLinusOkorie #TheVolumePod #PersonalDevelopment #AfricanYouth #GOTNI #FemiDliveJoin us: +234 814 046 0182WhatsApp Channel: https://bit.ly/4hdduoc#Nigeria #NigeriaPolitics #VolumePodcast #NigerianYouth #Pidgin #VolumewithFemiDlive #RoughPlay #NigerianNews #PoliticsInterview #Warri #TheVolumePod #FemiDlive #Tinubu #NigeriaEconomy #NigeriaNews #Politics #EconomyHost: Femi D Amele @femidlive Associate Producer: Michael O. Jeremiah @disismoj Sound Editor: Austin Kyunni @kyunniaustinVideo Editor: Ladi Damola @ladidamolaDigital Marketing: Mine JohnsonExecutive Producer: Femi D Amele & Owor Agbor Esame

Men are Bleeding and its not stopping. You give birth to a boy, but you raise and build a man. In this powerful episode of Volume with FemiDlive, host FemiDlive sits down with renowned author and men's coach, Coach Isaiah Emmanuel, to break down the internal framework of manhood, the evolution of raising boys, and how unhealed childhood trauma affects modern relationships.Coach Isaiah shares actionable frameworks for parenting boys from age 0 to 16, explains why old-school compliance parenting fails in today’s world, and addresses the crisis of underfathered and overmothered men in society.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 - "You give birth to a boy, but build a man"00:50 - Introduction to Coach Isaiah Emmanuel02:00 - What does it mean to raise a boy into a man?03:30 - Age 0–10: The Parenting Phase & Building Structure05:30 - Age 11–16: The Mentoring Phase & Self-Identity07:30 - The Evolution of Manhood (Agrarian to Industrial Age)09:30 - Why You Can't Raise Gen Z/Alpha Boys Like Previous Generations11:00 - Men & Childhood Trauma: Unhealed Wounds & Emotional Suppression13:30 - "Bleeding Inside, Mafia Outside" — The Adult Survival Mechanism15:30 - The Crisis of Underfathered & Overmothered Men17:30 - Marriage, Communication & Emotional Maturity━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📢 CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙 Podcast: Volume with FemiDlive🔔 Don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE for more transformational conversations on growth, faith, and manhood!#Manhood #ParentingBoys #CoachIsaiahEmmanuel #VolumeWithMDLife #MentalHealth #RaisingBoys #FatherhoodJoin us: +234 814 046 0182WhatsApp Channel: https://bit.ly/4hdduoc#Nigeria #NigeriaPolitics #VolumePodcast #NigerianYouth #Pidgin #VolumewithFemiDlive #RoughPlay #NigerianNews #PoliticsInterview #Warri #TheVolumePod #FemiDlive #Tinubu #NigeriaEconomy #NigeriaNews #Politics #EconomyHost: Femi D Amele @femidlive Associate Producer: Michael O. Jeremiah @disismoj Sound Editor: Austin Kyunni @kyunniaustinVideo Editor: Ladi Damola @ladidamolaDigital Marketing: Mine JohnsonExecutive Producer: Femi D Amele & Owor Agbor EsamePodcastVolume with FemiDlive is the top Nigerian political show for Nigerian current news, Nigerian politics, and political commentary Nigeria you can trust. Hosted by renowned broadcaster and FemiDlive personality Femi D Amele, this platform tackles the toughest questions on governance in Nigeria, national policy, and the Nigerian economy.Femi D Amele, renowned broadcaster and FemiDlive himself, leads the conversation, cutting through the noise and providing the definitive Nigerian news analysis. Every week, we dedicate our platform to dissecting the most critical challenges and opportunities facing the nation.The Nigerian Election Debate and Democracy: As a leading platform for public discourse, Volume with FemiDlive provides non-stop coverage and context for the Nigerian Election Debate cycle. We host candidates, political strategists, and analysts to dissect party manifestos, evaluate electoral reforms, and promote democratic accountability. We encourage vibrant, respectful debate among all citizens on the future direction of the country.

He's a public officer accused of running a government agency that "doesn't exist" — yet it has a federal secretariat office, a budget line, and a Director-General who's now gone into hiding. On this episode of Volume with FemiDlive, lawyer and political commentator Barrister Abubakar Ahmed Tamino breaks down the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council scandal, the Chief of Staff's ₦10 billion defamation suit, why he believes the ICPC can't be trusted to investigate itself, and what it means for accountability in President Tinubu's government ahead of 2027.We also get into the Muslim-Muslim ticket, whether Peter Obi's app-based presidential crowdfunding is a smart move or a legal risk, the case against state police, and why Nigerians may be more willing to "vote for the devil" than give Tinubu a second term.🔴 WE APOLOGISE FOR THE QUALITY OF THE FOOTAGETIMESTAMPS00:00 The ghost agency that "doesn't exist"02:30 System failure vs. deliberate cover-up07:00 Who is the purported DG — and why did he go into hiding?12:00 The Chief of Staff's ₦10bn defamation suit16:00 Why an independent panel, not the ICPC, should investigate22:00 Should the Chief of Staff step aside?28:00 Peter Obi's crowdfunding app — genius or risky?32:00 Tinubu-Shettima and the Muslim-Muslim ticket in 202738:00 "I'd rather vote for the devil" — the weaponization of poverty44:00 Why Barrister Tamino says NO to state policeTOPICS COVEREDNigeria politics news today, ghost agency Nigeria, Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, Chief of Staff Nigeria scandal, Tinubu 2027, Shettima Muslim-Muslim ticket, Peter Obi 2027, state police Nigeria debate, ICPC investigation, Nigeria corruption news, Nigeria economy hardship, Nigerian diaspora politics UK CanadaVolume with FemiDlive is a civic media conversation series from The Volume Pod, hosted by broadcast journalist Femi D. Amele (FemiDlive), covering Nigerian politics, leadership, and accountability for audiences at home and across the diaspora in the UK, Canada, and beyond.📲 Follow The Volume Pod:YouTube:    / @thevolumepod  Instagram: instagram.com/@thevolumepodsX (Twitter): x.com/@thevolumepodTikTok: tiktok.com/@thevolumepod#NigeriaPolitics #GhostAgency #Tinubu2027Join us: +234 814 046 0182WhatsApp Channel: https://bit.ly/4hdduocHost: Femi D Amele @femidlive Associate Producer: Michael O. Jeremiah @disismoj Sound Editor: Austin Kyunni @kyunniaustinVideo Editor: Ladi Damola @ladidamolaDigital Marketing: Mine JohnsonExecutive Producer: Femi D Amele & Owor Agbor EsamePodcastVolume with FemiDlive is the top Nigerian political show for Nigerian current news, Nigerian politics, and political commentary Nigeria you can trust. Hosted by renowned broadcaster and FemiDlive personality Femi D Amele, this platform tackles the toughest questions on governance in Nigeria, national policy, and the Nigerian economy.Femi D Amele, renowned broadcaster and FemiDlive himself, leads the conversation, cutting through the noise and providing the definitive Nigerian news analysis. Every week, we dedicate our platform to dissecting the most critical challenges and opportunities facing the nation. Rough Play, Now Available at :    / @roughplayshow