Nigeria: Rivers Potentials Still Untapped

29 June 2014

interview By Ernest Chinwo

As Rivers State revels in the euphoria of Port Harcourt being the UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Cortech Oil Services Limited, who is also on the board of the Niger Delta Development Corporation, Mr. Emmanuel Georgewill, in this interview with Ernest Chinwo, x-rays the potentials of the state and other issues, and concludes that the potentials of the state were still untapped

We have seen some policies of the Federal Government like the amnesty programme. As somebody who has been in an interventionist agency like the NDDC, do you see these programmes as capable of redirecting the youths as you posited?

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