VI.
Conclusion
God has endowed us with so many potentials. The question still remains: are we to exploit all? Or are we to
leave some things buried seeing the enormous effects they have on everything else on earth.
Acknowledgement
I want to appreciate my husband, Engr. Patrick Okolo, Prof. F. C. Okafor and my family; the Echefu‟s.
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