Hi! am Reno Omokri, lover of the project and i urge everyone to stay healthy

Reno Bemigho Omokri, was born in Nigeria on January 22nd, 1974 to Helen Bemigho a civil servant and Justice Jean Omokri a justice of the Nigerian Court of Appeals. He has an LLB and a BL from the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2000. He also has a Masters in Law from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom.

He founded the Council for Youth Empowerment with Malam Nasir El Rufai, a Nigerian reformer and former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (under President Olusegun Obasanjo) which is a non governmental organisation involved in pro-democracy work and youth development. Also working under the direction of Malam Nasir El Rufai, he helped organised Nigeria’s civil society and opposition elements in a group called G-57 to pressure the Nigerian administration to reveal the extent of the ill health of the now deceased former President, Malam Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He was a co author and signatory to the letter of prominent Nigerians calling for a probe into the health of the former leader. His name is the 48th name (see http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/sack-yaradua-g-57-tells-n-assembly/)
Reno has worked at the British House of Commons and the Nigerian Presidency known as Aso Rock Presidential Villa. He is also the founder of a multi media civil project called Build Up Nigeria that has seen him produce a series of short films and documentaries presenting the positive side of Nigeria that is often over looked by the Western media. Also on this project, Reno interviewed three of the present presidential candidates (Nuhu Ribadu, Ibrahim Shekarau and Dr. Pat Utomi). He has also interviewed the current President’s Chief Strategist (Oronto Douglas) , Nigeria’s current ambassador to the United States, as well as the Chairman of the Nigerian electoral body, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) . He also produced the documentary Facts V Fiction which was a viral hit in Nigeria.
He is currently a consultant at the U.S. Political Consultancy firm Joe Trippi and Associates (See http://www.trippiandassociates.com/) where he helps develop democracy support programmes for Africa.

Reno has been featured prominently as a political analyst on Nigeria’s major newspapers including in Thisday and The Guardian.
He also did a rebuttal to Ambassador John Campbell’s article on Nigeria which was featured on Transparency International’s (Nigeria) website as well as the Nigerian media For the future, Reno has a number of endeavours for which he is committed to including working with the Nigerian Diaspora to get election monitors for the April, 2011 elections and creating a free web portal where Nigerians can report incidences of electoral fraud.