Reno Omokri

Only A Stupid Government Does Not Borrow. In The Past, Presidents Were Borrowing To Consume. Tinubu Is Borrowing To Build Infrastructure

Happy birthday to my three handsome triplets Ragnar, Aiden and Liam and to their beautiful mother, my ex-wife, Precious all of whom are celebrating their new age today! To the triplets I say, on behalf of your older brother Aragorn and the entire family and household, that you have brought us so much joy and we are very proud of you. Our love for you is endless and our faith in you is total and complete. The three of you make life worth living and your courage and strength is utterly inspiring. Always filled with joy and always putting smiles on the faces of all those around you: you are indeed, together with your siblings, my strength and the joy of my life. May God bless you today and always and may He grant you many more beautiful years of good health, peace, joy, prosperity and blessings. He has guided you, provided for you, protected you and caused you to prosper and excel despite so many challenges and against all odds. That in itself is a miracle and as I see you go from strength to strength, each with his own unique and distinct gifts and qualities, it simply affirms my faith in God and confirms the fact that He can do ANYTHING and cannot be limited in His power, splendour and manifold blessings. In the three of you I see the love and faithfulness of God and I witness His goodness, mercy and splendour in open display. I thank Him for your respective lives and I thank the three of you for being my strength and my anchor and for giving me a purpose to fight on, to live and to excel. In all three of you, together with your older brother Aragorn, by the grace and mercy of God, I have four sons in whom I am well pleased and who will keep the flag flying long after I am gone. For this I thank the Lord and I say glory and honor be unto His holy name forever. To Precious, the mother of my children, I say thank you for being such a pillar of strength and a source of inspiration for our four handsome sons. I still remember watching you and holding your hand as you brought each of them into the world. Those were beautiful moments that no-one can take from either of us. We went through so much and had our differences over the years but isn't it wonderful how the Lord has established the peace between us for the sake and love of our children even as we walk our separate paths. That is the greatest testimony of all and has confirmed the fact that, with God, all things are possible. You have proved yourself to be such a wonderful mother and I am so proud of the fact that though we have gone our separate ways and have both found peace and happiness in our respective lives you are not only the mother of four of my children and ex-wife but you are also one of my dearest friends and closest confidantes. May your days be long Mama Aragorn, may you excel and prosper and may life be kind to you. Even as I pray for our sons every day I pray for you too and I marvel at your strength, resilience and commitment to these four young men. It serves as a lesson to us all. Have a great day too my dear and continue to shine in all your endeavours. May God be with you and yours now and always. (FFK) CT

Chukwudi, What Sort of Unintelligent Question Is That? Do You Want To Kill President Tinubu?

Reno Omokri congratulates Nigeria’s Ambassador to U.S. Former presidential aide and Ambassador-Designate to Mexico, Reno Omokri, has congratulated Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Colonel Kayode Are, following the presentation of his Letters of Credence to Donald Trump. Omokri praised Ambassador Are’s military and public service record, describing him as a patriot who would represent Nigeria excellently in the United States. ---- Continue reading in the comment section

President Tinubu: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow Dear Citizens of Nigeria, I hope you see what is occurring in the Republic of Senegal, where its government has just collapsed over the issue of a fuel subsidy, which it can no longer afford, after it rose from $418 million to $2.3 billion because of the Middle East crisis. Sadly, this crippling fuel subsidy has drained the revenues of that beloved nation and seriously limited the government's ability to provide social services. I hope Nigerians can now see the wisdom of His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, who foresaw this ahead for Nigeria and took harsh but necessary decisions that have now resulted in an economically and politically stable climate for our country. This is why Nigeria has experienced 12 consecutive quarters of GDP growth and trade surpluses, adding $67 billion to our economy and moving us from a GDP of ₦269.29 trillion on May 29, 2023, when Asiwaju became President, to ₦372.8 trillion today. Nigerians may recall that, in addition to Senegal, Mr Peter Obi had urged Nigeria to emulate the economic policies of Argentina, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Given the economic realities of today, and the soundness of the Nigerian polity, especially the fact that the International Monetary Fund acknowledged us as the sixth largest contributor to world GDP growth in 2025, it is hoped that Mr. Peter Obi can be honest to his followers and true to his conscience by admitting that he was wrong and that, indeed, President Tinubu's policies were the right panacea for Nigeria. And just as I congratulate President Bola Tinubu for winning the APC Presidential Primary election today with 10,999,162 votes, I urge Nigerians to remember whose economic policies brought Nigeria out of the doldrums, and whose would have plunged us into crisis. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dear Golden, Thank you for your feedback. Colonel Kayode Are (Rtd) was indeed Deputy National Security Adviser under my then boss, President Goodluck Jonathan. The then NSA was Lt. Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (Rtd). However, Lt. Gen. Gusau resigned on Thursday, September 16, 2010, to prepare to challenge President Jonathan in the 2011 Presidential Election. His resignation was accepted on Monday, September 20, 2010, and Colonel Kayode Are, his erstwhile deputy, became the acting NSA for 17 days, while the President shopped for a new NSA. If there are still doubts in your mind about the facts of the situation, you may want to read then President Jonathan's statement referring to Colonel Are as NSA and thanking him for his services via this link: vanguardngr.com/2010/10/jonath…. Except you are saying that President Jonathan, who appointed him, and I, his former spokesman, are wrong, and you are right. Which is not impossible. Thanks again, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Nigeria Is Not An Oil Rich Country. Without President Tinubu's Policies, Our Economy Would Have Collapsed!

Hearty congratulations to my friend, His Excellency, Colonel Kayode Are (Rtd), Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States of America, who has presented his Letters of Credence to President @realDonaldTrump, after his posting to the USA by His Excellency, @officialABAT, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, on Thursday, January 22, 2026. After his sterling military career, followed by his unblemished service to Nigeria as Director General of the Department of State Services and National Security Adviser, it is certain that Nigeria will be brilliantly represented by this specimen of the highest epitome of what it is to be an officer and a gentleman. I also acknowledge and celebrate the fact that you displayed Nigeria's culture and projected our nation's soft power by dressing in an elegant and flawless Aṣọ òkè ensemble. This, to me, is quite exemplary and celebratory, as I have dedicated much of my life to promoting authentically made-in-Nigeria clothing and fashion. My family and I congratulate Ambassador Are, and I, in particular, extend the right hand of fellowship to this patriot par excellence! Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

With Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura in 1999. Mallam Daura had just been named Minister for Agriculture. With us is Mallam Isa Yuguda, then the Chief Executive Officer of NAL Merchant Bank. Everybody in this photo was wearing made-in-Nigeria fabrics. If we all wore made-in-Nigeria clothes instead of imported ones, we would immediately add $4 billion per annum (what we spend each year on textile and fashion imports) to our GDP.

Dear Emezie, Thank you for your feedback. My apologies. I must have missed this valuable insight of yours when I was getting an education. Please, if you don't mind, could you help expand the spheres of my knowledge base by identifying these countries that have managed to build seaports in their territory without having any water or access to the sea? Thanks again, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dear Azuonwu, Thank you for your feedback. Please find attached a photo of former members of the Nigerian Army who fought for Biafra on the day they were reabsorbed into the Nigerian Army in January 1970. The only ones who were not absorbed were those who were never in the Nigerian Armed Forces before the war but were recruited by Biafra during the war, such as Joe Achuzia and Achike Udenwa, who later became Governor of Imo in 1999. Let me give you a couple of examples. Ebitu Ukiwe was recruited into the Nigerian Navy in 1960 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in 1964. When war broke out on 6 July 1967, Ebitu joined the Biafran Navy and fought against Nigeria. During the war, he was given command of Biafran gunboats PC 101 and, later, PC 202/PC 203, which killed hundreds of Colonel Benjamin Adekunle's soldiers in Port Harcourt. After the war ended on 15 January 1970, he was reabsorbed into the Nigerian Navy. He rose to become the Deputy to General Babangida and Number Two man in Nigeria in 1985 as Chief of the General Staff. Another example is Retired Admiral Allison Madueke, who also joined the Nigerian Navy in 1964 and later defected to Biafra during the Civil War. After the war ended, he was reabsorbed into the Nigerian Navy and posted to Nigeria's embassy in Washington DC, as Military Attaché (Navy). He thereafter rose to become Chief of Naval Staff under General Abacha. A further example is Colonel Robert Akonobi, who commanded the 57th Brigade of the Biafran Army that was responsible for the deaths of over 300 Nigerian soldiers during the Nigerian Civil War. After the war, Akonobi was reabsorbed into the Nigerian Army and promoted. Hr eventually became Military Governor of Anambra State in 1987, during the Babangida regime. Uche Chukwumerije, who later became Nigeria's Minister of Information, was head of propaganda in Biafra. One of the men who trained me during my ambassadorial induction last week was once a Biafran diplomat. Today, he is a former Nigerian Ambassador and presently a top shot in Nigeria. An extremely intelligent and influential man! Sylvester Ugoh, who was Tofa's running mate in the June 12, 1993 election, against MKO Abiola, and who was favoured to win, was the Governor of the Bank of Biafra. Major Humphrey Chukwuka was captured by Nigeria during the war as a POW. He was not killed. So were other POWs. He later appeared before the Oputa Panel to apologise for his role in the January 15, 1966 coup. There are thousands of other examples, but the point I am trying to make, Azuonwu, is that what you were told on Radio Biafra is not the truth. Thanks again, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dear Agu, Thank you for your feedback. First of all, the approvals given were not for a 'seaport', but for a Deep Sea Port, which is an entirely different thing. All the states you mentioned, including Lagos, Ondo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, and Rivers, have access to the sea. Secondly, these approvals were given to states and private individuals who applied for them. A few years ago, Alhaji Dangote also got a Deep Sea Port licence, and you may recall that I visited the Dangote port last year. If Anambra has access to the sea and applies for a Deep Sea Port licence, it will not be denied one. Thirdly, I have been to a Deep Sea Port. It is not possible to have one in Anambra State. For you to have either a seaport or a Deep Sea Port, you must have access to the sea. There is nowhere in Anambra that has access to the sea. And the same goes for all five Southeastern states. Regarding Onitsha, whose market you referred to, as I said above, the Southeast is completely landlocked and, as such, a region with no access to the sea cannot have a seaport. However, to give Ndi'Igbo a sense of belonging, the Federal Government dredged the River Niger and built the Onitsha River Port, which remains idle to this day due to a lack of patronage and regional issues.  The Onitsha River Port has been commissioned three times. It was first commissioned by President Shehu Shagari in 1983 and has gulped over $100 million in Federal Government funds. It is a White Elephant project. This means it is a project built for sentimental rather than economic reasons. A project that costs a lot of money to maintain but yields little to no profit or usefulness. Despite the Federal Government spending over $1 billion to dredge the River Niger, ocean liners still cannot access it. It would cost at least $20 billion to dredge the River Niger enough to allow ocean liners to cross it temporarily. Please fact-check me. And that money would be a massive waste, as nature would render the dredging obsolete in a couple of years. The River Niger is a river, not a sea or an ocean. And dredging cannot change it from a river to a sea! Agu, I hope you now understand why it is impossible to have a Deep Sea Port where there is no sea. Thanks again, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dear Chizaram, Thank you for your feedback. Actually, the word is not 'Ashebi'. Ashebi is a borrowed language or 'okwu mbite'. Many such okwu mbite were introduced into the Igbo language by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, when he wrote the first book in the Ibo (later Igbo) language, titled Isoama-Ibo: A Primer, published in 1857. They include Egwusi, which is actually a Lukumi-Yoruba word, Egusi, of which the etymology is from the Lukumi word for grinding: Egusi is a Lukumi Yoruba word that evolved from the phrase È gun si, which means to grind it in, in English. The word for 'grind' in Yoruba is 'gun'. In the olden days, the Lukumi had mortars, sometimes known as odo, with which they ground the melon that is the main component of the soup. The word's literal meaning is to grind it and put it in the pot. Other Okwu Mbite from Lukumi-Yoruba in Igbo include: Ashewo (A sha owo) Akara Akamu Oga (O ga) ga meaning high Abi and Shebi Mumu (Mu) meaning someone who is easily gotten. Mu means get or got in Lukumi Yoruba Yeye, which means joke in Lukumi Owambe, which is a bastardisation of Owanbe. Bishop Crowther also wrote the second book in the Igbo language titled 'Vocabulary of the Ibo Language', published in 1882. The proper word is Asọ-Ẹbí, which is Lukumi-Yoruba for cloth of the family. Etymologically, asọ means 'clothes,' although in some Lukumi dialects, such as my language, Itsekiri, 'cloth' is Èwú. Ẹbí means those born into the family. You may mock what I was wearing in this 1998 photo with Dr. Onagoruwa. However, I am four of it because it is made in Nigeria. Specifically, it was made in Nigeria. I don't mind mockery of what I wear, as long as it's made in Nigeria. It is better for me to wear made-in-Nigeria 'Ashebi' than to wear designers' imported from Europe and America. Even before colonialism, unlike some others, the Portuguese and British met my Itsekiri people wearing locally made clothes and footwear. Our self-sufficiency did not start today. Thank you, Chizaram, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dear Obiora, Thank you for your feedback on my review of General Gowon's autobiography. I do not know where you are getting this information, but it is all false, and I will factually address it with evidence, names, dates, and places. On the issue of Igbos being given the equivalent of $1 USD, here is what happened. Before the Bank of Biafra introduced the Biafran Pound on January 29, 1968, the Federal Military Government, led by General Yakubu Gowon, declared that the currency was illegal and would not be recognised or accepted by Nigeria. Nigerian citizens, including those who referred to themselves as Biafrans, were urged to reject the new so-called currency. It was printed without any gold standard or foreign reserve. It was what is called fiat money. Upon this announcement by the Federal Military Government, many prudent 'Biafrans' withdrew all their Nigerian Pounds and kept them at home. One such Biafran was Evelyn Okororie, who is still alive and told her story to CNN, which published it on January 16, 2020, in a piece titled 'Biafra war: Survivors relive account 50 years after Nigerian civil war ends.' It is necessary to note that, though Haiti, Zambia, the Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Gabon formally recognised the Republic of Biafra, none of them accepted the Biafran Pound as a freely convertible currency with their local currencies. Meaning that if you somehow found your way out of Biafra to those nations, you could not exchange your Biafran Pound for their local currency. Also, when Colonel Ojukwu fled Biafra, according to his Chief Secretary, Mr. N.U. Akpan, in his book, 'The Struggle for Secession', he left with Nigerian and British Pounds. He did not escape with Biafran Pounds. He gave out all the Biafran Pounds in his possession to those of his household he left behind. If the currency had any value, why would he do that? After the Republic of Biafra was militarily defeated and the East Central state rejoined the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the then Minister of Finance, faced a conundrum. What was Nigeria to do with the Biafran Pound? The currency was illegal and had been printed without the Central Bank of Nigeria's backing. It was not backed by any gold reserve or foreign reserve. It was just a fiat currency with no real substance to back it. There was no way to verify who had genuine Biafran Pounds because Biafra had collapsed, and those responsible for printing the currency had either died, fled the country, or denied involvement. As a personal initiative of Chief Awolowo, who refused to take his plan to the Federal Executive Council for fear that it would be defeated by hawks in General Gowon’s cabinet, especially Brigadier Murtala Muhammed, who, at that time, was virulently anti-Igbo, the Ministry of Finance issued a circular to pay £20 to those former Biafrans whose account records of monies domiciled in Nigerian Pounds were lost, and to those who held their bank balances in Biafran Pounds. Every account holder received a blanket £20. £20 was then equivalent to $40, not $1, and was more than the monthly minimum wage at that time. Adjusted for inflation, £20 in January 1970 would be worth $340 today. Fact-check me! That money was a gift from Nigeria, and more specifically from Chief Awolowo's humane mindset. Former Biafrans who could prove their account balances in Nigerian Pounds received all their money. The late Arthur Nzeribe is an example of an Igbo who could prove his account balances in the Nigerian Pound. After the war, all former Biafrans who had bank accounts outside the Eastern Region were able to access all their funds. The late Chief Alex Ekwueme is also an example. Others, like the late father of John Nwodo, also recovered their entire fortune that had been left in a Nigerian bank. Continued on my Facebook page for want of space here facebook.com/share/1H9LjmHW… Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker.

An Interim Review of General Gowon's Autobiography, and Why It Made Me Fall in Love with an Igbo Man! One of the things that most struck me in General Yakubu Gowon's autobiography, "My Life of Duty and Allegiance", is that, at a time when he and his family were "stranded" and "homeless" in London, it was an Igbo man from Arochukwu, in the present Abia State, named Emmanuel Oti, that offered the deposed Head of State and his family his house in London, as a refuge (Page 605). Though there are many other breathtaking and earth-shattering revelations in the book, this exposé was it for me. It shows the redemptive nature and qualities of the Nigerian person, such that an Igbo man, who only just five years ago, had been a citizen of the defunct Republic of Biafra, which was engaged in a fratricidal civil war that would lead to the deaths of between one and three million persons, mostly Igbos, would still have the milk of human kindness in him to extend such a right hand of fellowship to the man who symbolised the essence of Nigeria's will to crush Biafra. Mr. Oti is, to me, the hero of a book whose hero was supposed to be the author himself. The humanity in his action of accommodating the man who was public enemy number one of the defunct Republic of Biafra is beyond admirable. The adjective I am looking for is 'otherworldly'! I recall that on Friday, 27 November 2020, General Gowon's son, Mr. Ibrahim Ibi Gowon, had testified that the family was homeless until they were rescued by Mr. Oti. But to read it directly from the horse's mouth makes the account infallible. I have since verified the account, and even the address on Finchley Road, London, where Mr. Oti (sometimes spelt Otti) put up his friend, General Gowon. People like Mr. Emmanuel Oti are the truest and noblest Nigerians. They are the types of people we need in Nigeria if we are to fulfil our potential as a beacon of hope for the Black Race. I wish I had the power to name major public infrastructure after Mr. Oti. If in life you had only one friend like Emmanuel Oti, you should consider yourself truly favoured by God. Overall, my analysis of Mr. Oti is that Biafra was like a bee. A bee can sting. Yet, it also produces honey. Men and women like Emmanuel Oti, from the defunct Republic of Biafra, are the honey that the Biafran bee produced. I am so glad that Nigeria was stung by the bee in the process of acquiring the honey epitomised by the Emmanuel Otis of this world. May Eledumare bless Mr. Emmanuel Otti and his progeny forever and ever. Finally, may the Creator also continue to give Nigeria leaders with the honesty of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, who used to ride on trains to go on his annual leave in the village of Tafawa Balewa in present-day Bauchi State, even where some of his ministers flew on private planes (yes, they had them in Nigeria at that time), General Gowon and the late President Shehu Shagari, who had no befitting house in Sokoto, after his December 31, 1983, overthrow, and retired to a modest building in Shagari village, after his release from detention. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dr. Olu Onagoruwa and I, twenty-eight years ago, in 1998. Everything I was wearing in this photo was made in Nigeria. This has been my consistent lifestyle. By the way, I was so glad to see Dr. Onagoruwa smiling on that day. He had been quite despondent for some time after his son, Toyin, was killed on December 18, 1996, after he clashed with General Sani Abacha over the release of Turner Ogboru, which Onagoruwa had ordered. Turner Ogboru was accused of sponsoring the Orkar Coup. The bad blood between Dr. Onagoruwa and General Abacha eventually led to Onagoruwa leaving the Abacha regime in 1995. Dr. Onagoruwa later accused a friend of his son, Toyin, one Victor Ude, whose education, incidentally, Dr. Onagoruwa had sponsored, of being the mole who fingered Toyin to operatives of the Abacha junta. He petitioned the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, AKA, Oputa Panel, to look into the death of Toyin. Mr. Onagoruwa eventually suffered a stroke and passed away on July 21, 2017. May his soul rest in peace!

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