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Nigeria’s First
City Monument Bank said on Wednesday its pre-tax profit rose to 9.02
billion naira ($58 million) in 2010 from 856.6 million the previous
year, and declared a 0.35 naira dividend per share.

Gross earnings rose
to 62.67 billion naira from 35.79 billion naira in 2009, the bank said
in a filing with the Nigerian Stock Exchange.