LAGOS – Nigeria’s Sterling Bank said on Monday its first quarter pretax profit rose 14 percent year-on-year to 4.04 billion naira ($20 million).
Revenue also rose to 27.22 billion naira in the three months to end-March from 24.71 billion naira last year, the bank said in a statement without giving a reason for the rise in earnings.
($1 = 198.95 naira) (Reporting by Oludare Mayowa; Editing by James Macharia)
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