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Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc , GTCO, has recorded interest income of N1.622 trillion for the audited financial year ended December 31, 2025, up by 22.8% from N1.321 trillion recorded in the corresponding period 2024. The post GTCO’s interest income up 23.2% to N1.62 trillion appeared first on Vanguard News.

Total assets rose to N17.8 trillion, while shareholders’ funds stood at N3.4 trillion The post GTCO declares N12.76 dividend, posts N1.23trn profit appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

The manufacturer distributed N0.40 per share to shareholders in interim dividend earlier in the year, twice as much as it did in the 2024, and plans to pay N1.25 as final dividend, it said in its audited results published on Tuesday. The post Berger Paints plans 25% increase in final dividends as yearly profit rises appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Singer and actor Brandy was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday

Afreximbank has underwritten $2.5 billion in a $4 billion syndicated loan for the Dangote Refinery, reinforcing its financial position and highlighting strong investor confidence in Africa’s largest refining project. The post Afreximbank leads $2.5bn backing for Dangote Refinery in landmark $4bn deal appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Helen Zille, a well-known South African politician, wore a wetsuit, a mask and snorkel, and a pink-and-white swimming cap as she doggy-paddled through the pool of muddy brown water in an upscale Johannesburg suburb

In a show of force in Cape Town, around 500 military and police personnel paraded ahead of a year-long deployment targeting gangs, illegal mining, and organized crime across the Western Cape.

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed into law legislation doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison amid a crackdown on the country's gay community.

Gran Grif attacked Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite early Sunday, burning homes and leaving bodies strewn on the streets. The gang attacked again on Monday, said Bertide Horace, spokesperson for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, an activist group

On a dusty field in Kano, coach Hida Ghaddar is doing far more than running football drills. Through her Breakthrough Soccer Academy, she offers young people an alternative to the growing risks around them, combining sport with discipline, education, and job support.