trillville: And someone will still tell me to vote for gej in 2015?

wawa_boy: They will be distributed among 53 best farmers. GEJ is working

zika1: Jesu christi!!! Yepa dis gov haff kill me ooo. Can u imagine buying iphones dat won't reach me and I'm still @ home cos off ASUU. God is watching u pple in 3D.

unmask: The only problem i have with this development is that why must it be an iphone, couldn't they get an htc one or galaxy note 3?

keemness: Tinubu must have interviewed this guy.....

S@NNiE:
A Bristol-born businessman based in Dubai is bracing himself for a flood of orders for iPhones clad not in the gold-effect finish of the new iPhone 5S, but the real stuff.

Amjad Ali supplies royal families, governments, and minted customers across Russia, China and the Middle East with gold-plated devices that cost up to £50,000.

The 42-year-old entrepreneur, who grew up in Glasgow, has pre-ordered hundreds of new iPhones. His team at Gold and Co. will set to work the day after launch before delivering the devices to luxury retailers.

“We strip the units down and then plate them in copper, nickel and then pure gold,” he told the Independent. “We have limited units per region and each is numbered and placed in a handmade wooden box with a certificate of authenticity and wax seal.”

Ali typically delivers 50 devices a month, including Blackberries and iPads, but orders rose to more than 300 a month when the iPhone 5 was launched last year. The firm expects greater demand still for the sixth-generation device, announced today.

Gold and Co.’s customers have included the Saudi royal family, which, Ali says, ordered a gold iPhone studded with hundreds of diamonds, including a giant piece that served as the device’s “home” button. The bill: £50,000.

Basic models in gold or rose gold cost from £3,000. Ali says he is fulfilling an order from the Nigerian government for 53 gold iPhones to mark the country’s 53rd year of independence from Britain next month.

“We will engrave them with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses,” he said.

The company has also supplied an engraved gold iPad to each of the rooms at the luxury “six-star” Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai.

For the new iPhone, Ali has added a platinum option to the gold and rose gold currently offered. “Muslim men are not supposed to wear gold,” he explains. “We had government departments for example cancelling orders so now we’re launching platinum to tap into a huge market. Most importantly, it’s a third colour. Everyone wants to be different.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yours-for-up-to-50000-the-real-gold-iphone-5s-outshining-apples-new-release-8807520.html

S@NNiE:
A Bristol-born businessman based in Dubai is bracing himself for a flood of orders for iPhones clad not in the gold-effect finish of the new iPhone 5S, but the real stuff.

Amjad Ali supplies royal families, governments, and minted customers across Russia, China and the Middle East with gold-plated devices that cost up to £50,000.

The 42-year-old entrepreneur, who grew up in Glasgow, has pre-ordered hundreds of new iPhones. His team at Gold and Co. will set to work the day after launch before delivering the devices to luxury retailers.

“We strip the units down and then plate them in copper, nickel and then pure gold,” he told the Independent. “We have limited units per region and each is numbered and placed in a handmade wooden box with a certificate of authenticity and wax seal.”

Ali typically delivers 50 devices a month, including Blackberries and iPads, but orders rose to more than 300 a month when the iPhone 5 was launched last year. The firm expects greater demand still for the sixth-generation device, announced today.

Gold and Co.’s customers have included the Saudi royal family, which, Ali says, ordered a gold iPhone studded with hundreds of diamonds, including a giant piece that served as the device’s “home” button. The bill: £50,000.

Basic models in gold or rose gold cost from £3,000. Ali says he is fulfilling an order from the Nigerian government for 53 gold iPhones to mark the country’s 53rd year of independence from Britain next month.

“We will engrave them with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses,” he said.

The company has also supplied an engraved gold iPad to each of the rooms at the luxury “six-star” Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai.

For the new iPhone, Ali has added a platinum option to the gold and rose gold currently offered. “Muslim men are not supposed to wear gold,” he explains. “We had government departments for example cancelling orders so now we’re launching platinum to tap into a huge market. Most importantly, it’s a third colour. Everyone wants to be different.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yours-for-up-to-50000-the-real-gold-iphone-5s-outshining-apples-new-release-8807520.html

kokoA: I don't gerrit men.. Iphones and independence day.. How are they related?

taharqa2:

Dont be a FOOOOOL, my frnd. In what way is this a case of Corruption, talkless of ' monumental corruption and unbridled aquisition of primitive wealth'?? You chaps shouldn't overstretch this more than is necessary.

Even if the Govt is actually paying for these Iphones, they will be given as Gifts to very deserving 53 Nigerians. The only question people are asking is on the Cost Implication of the Gifts (whether it is not a Wasteful venture) And, esp for me, why the choice of Iphones??

There is no stealing here.

Afro connect: TOTAL RUBBISH AND UTTER WASTE...GOODLUCK THIS IS DISAPPOINTING.
NIGERIANS ARE GOING TO BED HUNGRY EVERY NIGHT YOU ARE BUYING LUXURIOUS PHONES FOR THE RICH WHO HAVE BENEFITTED IMMENSELY FROM OUR SYSTEM.

Tolexander:

53 gold iphone multiplied by £3,000 = £159,000 = N40,959,713.43.


N41million of nigerian budget for less than 53 people(cos the president may likely have 2 or more of the iphones) of the 160million population.

ASUU is on strike with the students not knowing when they will resume.

Daniel Oikhena wanted to stow away from Benin airport to US but became devastated on landing in lagos airport.

90nigerians were deported from an ordinary Tunisia around 12.32am today like fishes back into the beach.

All the above cos of the claim 'nigeria doesn't have money'.

Jonathan, God is watching you in 3D o!