Nigerian Government orders 53 Gold iPhones

Simon Usborne, reporting on The Independent, says that the Nigerian government has ordered 53 Gold iPhones to celebrate the country's 53rd year of independence from Britain next month.

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The Independent: Yours for up to £50,000: The REAL gold iPhone 5S outshining Apple's new release... The report states that Amjad Ali and his team at Gold and Co. "supplies royal families, governments, and minted customers across Russia, China and the Middle East with gold-plated devices that cost up to £50,000."
Said Ali to The Independent: "We strip the units down and then plate them in copper, nickel and then pure gold." The Nigerian order will reportedly be engraved with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses.