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Nigeria sitting on keg of gunpowder, says David-West
NATCOM Consortium wins $252.25m NITEL/M-TEL bid Kenneth Tohembeth
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Council on Privatisation (NPC) has finally succeeded in selling the moribund Nigeria Telecommunications
Limited (NITEL) and its mobile arm, M-TEL for $252.251 million. NATCOM Consortium was yesterday an-
nounced as winner of the bid. The firm, which had initially offered $221milCONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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Quick Read R-L: Investor, Natcom Consortium, Captain Hosa Okunbo; Chairman, Mr. Olatunde Ayeni, Director-General, Bureau of Public Entreprise (BPE), Mr. Benjamin Dikki; Minister of Telecommunication, Mrs. Omobola Johnson; Liquidator, Nigerian Telecommunications Plc, Chief Olutola Senbore and Vice-Chairman, National Council on Privatisation (NCP), Alhaji Haruna Sambo, as NATCOM Consortium put in $251.252 million to win the financial bids for NITEL/MTEL sales by the NCP in Abuja...yesterday.
Robbers snatch gov's official car Dahiru Suleiman DUTSE
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rmed robbers have snatched one of the official cars of Jiga-
wa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido. The police said yesterday in Dutse, the state capital, that the car, a Toyota Land Cruiser, was being
driven by its driver, Auwalu Mohammed, when the gunmen forcibly took it away from him at 9pm on Tuesday. The state Police Pub-
lic Relations Officer, Mr. Abdu Jinjiri, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said manhunt had been launched for the robCONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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Death toll in Damaturu }5 attack hits 150