MTN Nigeria will become a Public Liability Company (PLC) in 2016.
Accordingly, the company will list its shares on the floor of the
Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) by way of public offer for purchase by
interested members of the investing public.
A senior insider
in MTN Nigeria confided in Business Journal: “Well, l can tell you that
the management has concluded plans to list the shares of MTN on the
Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in 2016, mainly due to intense pressure
from various quarters in the past three years. Unless there is a change
of policy in the near future, the 2016 date remains sacrosanct for now.”
The insider said part of the game-plan for 2016 was the selling off of
MTN telecom masts and outsourcing of various
operations of the company
since 2013.
In the 2014 business year, MTN recorded revenue of
N824.8 billion compared to N793.6 billion in 2013. Analysts in the
industry also believe that investors in MTN were complaining of static
growth, especially in terms of income generation and unending demand for
right-ofway payment by various state governments and government
agencies.
Alluding to the static growth 196 302.9 221.4 $42.56
$47.56 Monday Aug. 31 - Sept. 6, 2015 Oando N10.19 Dansugar N7.26 Nestle
N-89.7 UACN N-3.60 of MTN Nigeria, the MTN Group said: “MTN Nigeria
experienced a difficult six months (in 2015) impacted largely by
unfavourable macro-economic conditions and operational execution
challenges resulting in declining revenue and higher costs.”
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