There are reports that the Nigerian government has ordered 53 units of gold plated version of the newly launched Apple iPhone 5s, to celebrate the country’s 53rd independence anniversary next month.
The gold plated phones are said to cost approximately £50,000 per unit if it is studded with hundreds of diamonds, including a giant piece that serves as “home” button or £3,000 if it is basic models in gold or rose gold.
These would translate to over twelve million naira (N12.3 million) per unit for the gold with diamond or N738, 000 for the basic models in gold. So, on a rough estimate, the independence phones could cost Nigeria a whopping N651m (six hundred and fifty one million naira) or N39.11 million, respectively, (depending on which was ordered) at N246 exchange rate with the Pound.
The ordered phones, according to sources would be engraved with the symbols of the country’s coat of arms, a shield and two horses and delivered before the Independence Day. If this story is true, who gets one and what qualifies the recipients.
But the Federal Government through statement signed by Mr Joseph Mutah, the Press Secretary to the Minister of Information, said the reports were ‘mere’ fabrications. The statement said the story “is false in its entirety and nothing but a figment of the warped imagination of the authors’’.
Source: Vanguard
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