At the three-day Rivers Investment Summit held in Port Harcourt recently, participants drawn from the public and private sectors x-rayed the challenges to the business climate in the area. Festus Akanbi who attended the summit reports that private sector operators were also able to secure the commitment of the state government to ease the process of doing business in Rivers State
One of the immediate fallouts of the country's rising population is the corresponding pressure on government to provide jobs and amenities for its citizens. Economists are therefore of the opinion that with the nation's population figure surging to 168 million, the responsibility of making live conducive for the citizenry is no longer that of the government alone.
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