Nigeria’s PZ Cussons, the local unit of British soap and shampoo maker, would pay an interim dividend of 0.20 naira per share after it declared a nine-month pretax profit of N3.99 billion ($205 million).
The figure shows a 23 percent fall from a year earlier.
Turnover dropped slightly to N52.88 billion from N52.59 billion during the period to end-February compared with a year earlier, it said in a statement on Friday.
