Story On 53 Gold-Plated iPhones Is False - Reno Omokri

The presidency debunked news making rounds that the federal government plans to Buy customised gold plated iphones ,
a statement via his twitter handle special assistant to the president on New Media Reno Omokri reads :''Be advised that the story that the Nigerian Government has ordered 53 Gold iPhones is false. There is no truth to the story whatsoever''.
@renoomokri

Premium times ,sahara reporters and other online media platforms had published same earlier today without cross checking their sources and facts .

The UK’s Independent newspaper has retracted it's statement that the Nigerian government ordered 53 Gold phones to celebrate independence while interviewing the founder of Gold and Co, Amjad Ali

Below is the corrected statement

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

while the previous was

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.

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



In a twitter exchange between the company and a Nigerian social activist, Henry Okelue (@4eyedmonk), the London-based company denied claims by Independent newspaper that it got the order directly from the government, saying the order came from a private individual

https://twitter.com/goldandco/status/377784296393957376