Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications operator, Etisalat, has emerged winner of the ‘African Telecoms Deal of the Year 2011’ at the 13th Euromoney/Project Finance Magazine Awards in London last week. This deal, one of the largest project finance transactions in Nigeria in 2011 was signed on 10 March, 2011 between EMTS and a consortium of banks — First Bank, Zenith Bank, Access, Fidelity Bank,UBA, Oceanic Bank (now Ecobank), GTB and Bank PHB (now Keystone)