Lindsay Barret and ‘Rivers @ 50′: Golden opportunity to promote regional cohesion
Goods and services through a modernized Port Harcourt, Bonny and Opobo ports, mutually complementing with the Calabar-Bakassi, Ibaka deep sea, Brass-Nembe, Bomadi and Burutu counterparts, would greatly prosper the coastal and riverine Igbos, the Efik-Annang-central Ibibio-Ogoja, Ijaw, Ogoni, and Andoni; have mighty beneficent effects upon the Eastern hinterland by assisting its rapid industrialization and, of course, more economically facilitate progress in the Middle Belt and Northeast of Nigeria and, thus, complementing the efforts of our Yoruba compatriots to develop Nigeria as a whole from the Western angle.