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Issam Darwish, the founder/CEO of IHS Towers, was all smiles following the successful listing of his company on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, October 14, but it was not always that way. He could hardly have summoned the same smile in 1999 when his first bet on Nigeria’s telecoms sector fell through. Celia Motophone Limited, a…

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Issam Darwish, the founder/CEO of IHS Towers, was all smiles following the successful listing of his company on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, October 14, but it was not always that way. He could hardly have summoned the same smile in 1999 when his first bet on Nigeria’s telecoms sector fell through. Celia Motophone Limited, a…
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