BY PETER EGWUATU

The Rivers State Government will today (Wednesday) showcase the numerous investment opportunities in the state to prospective investors at an investor’s forum tagged: “Change that works.”

The forum, which will hold from November 16 to 18, 2011, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, is aimed at displaying the investment opportunities that exist in Rivers State and its environs.

Rivers State and its environs are strategic to the economic well-being of Nigeria and it is therefore important that the area develops into a robust and secure commercial hub.

It is believed that developing the region into a robust and secure commercial hub would help diffuse threats to the energy security of the world and should be a catalyst for the development of Oil and Gas activities around the Gulf of Guinea in a safe and environmentally friendly atmosphere.

Realising this fact, a group of entrepreneurs and concerned stakeholders of Rivers State decided to collaborate with the Governor of the State, Honourable Rotimi Amaechi to organise an investors’ forum.

According the Chairman of the Organising Committee, Mr. Atedo Peterside, through this collaboration, they would help boost economic activities in the state and its environs and also facilitate a turn-around nationally that would help Nigeria attain and surpass the Millennium Development.

Peterside, who is also the Chairman of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, said that the forum had received overwhelming support with as ministers of the Federal Government, national and international business figures would be in attendance.