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ThisDay reports that no fewer than 16 firms have submitted expressions of interest (EoIs) to Barclays to bid for 9mobile, Nigeria’s fourth largest network operator. Companies that have expressed interest in 9mobile, which until recently was Etisalat Nigeria Limited,include: 1. Africa’s biggest telecoms operator, MTN; 2. India’s Bharti Airtel, operating as Airtel in Nigeria; 3. ntel, which in 2015 acquired the assets of the defunct NITEL and MTel through the federal government’s privatisation programme. 4. Bua Group, the privately held conglomerate promoted by Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu; 5. Morning Side Capital Partners, promoted by the former Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Alex Otti; 6. Africell, a subsidiary of the Lebanon-based Lintel Group of Companies, with cellular communications operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), The Gambia, Sierra Leone and Uganda Other firms that submitted are 7. EoIs are Obot Etiebet & Co, belonging to a f...

Even though , 9mobile formally known as Etisalat promised that the management and mode of operation won't be affected, it sure looks like there will be some changes.