As a way of boosting the ease of doing business in the state, the Rivers State Information, Communication Technology (ICT) Department will soon unveil its business listing services.
The service is billed to cover informal business aside the 6,778 companies that have been captured as registered tax payers in the state.
Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on ICT, Mr Ibifuro Asawo, said the informal sector wouldcover non-government, corporate and privately owned businesses to be captured in the tax net.
He disclosed that not fewer that 139,000 companies have been covered, while more will be captured in the coming months.
Speaking on the RivJob Portal opened about a year ago to capture job seekers and link them to potential employees, Asawo noted that the portal has over 170, 000 registered applicants.
So far, he stated that lots of the applicants have been linked up to employers but that it requires a process and tedious selection to get the best.
Currently, the plan is to float a system where there will be synergy with the private sector.
Already,  over 19,000 young people were trained in different computer programmes as a way of making the state an ICT haven in the Niger Delta, he said.
To further spread its activities, he stated that the department was set to organise an ICT in secondary schools and tertiary institutions.
“If you look all over the world, you will discover that ICT is basically for young people. So what we are doing as a state is to have a succession plan, if not, all we have achieved we will be a waste,” Asawo said.