Developing Nigeria’s local content
By CNBC
27 September 2017 |
4:20 pm
The chairman, house committee on Local Content Development in Nigeria Emmanuel Elon says the regulators of the oil and gas sector need to collaborate more to grow the research and development value chain.
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