The
National Council on Privatisation (NCP) on Thursday approved the sale of the
liquidated Nigeria Telecommunication Plc and its subsidiary, Mtel, to NATCOM
Consortium for $252 million.
Atedo
Peterside, the chairman of NCP’s Technical Committee, told State House
correspondents in Abuja that the approval was one of the decisions taken at a
meeting of the council presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo.
He
said that NATCOM beat one other bidder to clinch the deal.
“What
happened today was that
