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ZTE provides $82,251,950 supplier credit for Phase 1 of the National Rural Telephony Project (NRPT) (Linked to Record ID#73339)

$82.25M USD

Funder	Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank)
Recipient Organization	ZTE Corporation (formerly Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation)
Country	Nigeria
Start Date	Jul 05, 2002
End Date	Nov 05, 2032
Duration	11,081 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`61422`

Grant Description

ZTE provides $82,251,950 supplier credit for Phase 1 of the National Rural Telephony Project (NRPT) On July 5, 2002, ZTE signed an $82,251,950 supplier credit agreement with the Government of Nigeria for Phase 1 of the National Rural Telephony Project (NRPT).

📋 Loan / Grant Terms

💰 Loan Amountcarried the following terms: 12 year maturity

📅 Maturity12 years

⏳ Grace Period6 years

💹 Interest Rate3.5%

The final maturity date of the loan was December 31, 2014, and according to the Government of Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (DMO), the loan was fully repaid by the end of 2014.

In order to finance its supplier credit agreement with the Government of Nigeria, ZTE secured an export seller’s credit from China Eximbank.

The purpose of this project was to provide telecommunication (including phone, fax, and internet) services to 218 of the country’s 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Federal Capital Territory and install 150,226 Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) lines. ZTE was the contractor responsible for implementation and this project was plagued by problems and controversies.

As of 2011, the project had still not successfully installed a single CDMA line.

Then, in 2012, a top official of Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications Technology announced that “[t]he telecom industry is fully liberalised, there is very little government involvement and, therefore, we believe that the National Rural Telephony Project is better implemented and managed outside of government.

So these six rural telephony exchanges are being concessioned to companies that have paid for them and our role is to monitor the implementation and delivery of services to rural areas. In a sense, we are getting out of the rural telephony.”

📋 Staff Comments

This project is also known as the ZTE-Nigeria Local Government Rural Telephone-Telecom Network Project, Phase 1 of the ZTE Nigerian Local Government Rural Telephony Project, and Nigerian Local Government Rural Telephony Project. The Chinese project title is 建设的尼全国农网一期网 or 农网电话项目 or 了尼农话网一期项目.
See Project ID#73339 for a separate supplier credit from ASB for Phase 1 of the National Rural Telephony Project (NRPT).

📚 Sources & References

华为中兴有意控股尼日利亚运营商
中兴通讯获尼日利亚9500万美元通信网项目
Bureaucracy Threatens US$400m National Rural Telephony Project in Nigeria
中国企业开拓尼日利亚通讯市场的现状、存在问题及建议, 2014 Annual Report and Statements of Accounts
Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 2009, http://nigeria.mofcom.gov.cn/sys/print.shtml?/ztdy/200804/20080405456896
中兴通讯获尼日利亚大额CDMA设备订单
尼日利亚电信市场简况及进一步促进我企业开拓尼市场的思考和建议
尼日利亚众议院通讯委员会调查50亿奈拉的农网电话项目
尼日利亚众议院通讯委员会调查50亿奈拉的农网电话项目
Rural Telephony Rip-Off
FG Abandons $200 Million Rural Telephony Project
Fresh Headaches for Rural Telephony Project, 2017 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts
Actual External Debt Service Payments in 2009
Actual External Debt Service Payments in 2010
Actual External Debt Service Payments
January - December 2011
Actual External Debt Service Payments
January - December 2012
Actual External Debt Service Payments
January - December 2013
Actual External Debt Service Payments
January - December 2014, 2015 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, 2014 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts Loan applications and disbursements are still being received and processed as the projects continue to evolve. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation are in place to ensure project continuity.

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ZTE Corporation (formerly Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation)

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