Reno Omokri

Bemigho Reno Omokri, was born on January 22nd 1974 in Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently Special Assistant to the Nigerian President on New Media, a position he was appointed to on August 16th 2011. He is noted for using social media to conduct surveys and project the developments undertaken by the Nigerian Government. . He is the founder of a multi-media project, Build Up Nigeria, and has produced a series of short films. He has a BL from the Nigerian Law School and LL.M from the University of Wolverhampton

Prior to this, he was Vice President, Africa, at Joe Trippi and Associates, a U.S. Political Consulting firm.

He is the pastor of a church, Mind of Christ Christian Center, where he teaches the word of God on a regular basis.

Since moving to Nigeria from California in 2011 to work with the Nigerian President, Reno has worked closely with the National leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria and has actively engaged in evangelism.

The church he pastors has a facebook following of over thirty-thousand followers. Reno Omokri has a twitter following of over fourty-one thousand followers.

He is a prolific writer and has been published (mainly political OpEd and Christian material) in many newspapers.

Reno has been a panelist at the United States Institute of Peace as well as the Atlantic Council , both in Washington D.C.

He was also a signatory of a letter by a group of eminent Nigerians (G 57) that called for the resignation of President Umaru Yar'adua after he was evacuated from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009 for a medical emergency without handing over executive powers to his vice, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.