Omokore has business interests that span oil trading and exploration, marine, haulage services, steel, dredging engineering and property development.

Jide Omokore, who is of the Okun tribe from Yorubaland, hails from Isanlu town, headquarters of Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria.

[2][3] According to Forbes, which profiled Omokore as one of "Ten Nigerian Multi-Millionaires You've Never Heard Of", Energy Resources Group is "one of Nigeria's largest privately-held conglomerates.

ERG has interests in oil trading and exploration, haulage services, steel, dredging engineering and property development."

He donated fifty million naira (N50,000,000; $250,000) to the government of his home state, Kogi, as aid to victims who suffered damages during the 2012 Nigeria floods.