Nigeria's Zenith Bank targets 5.5% rise in pretax profit in 2021

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Zenith Bank targets a pretax profit of 270 billion naira ($709.44 million) this year, up 5.5% from a year earlier, the bank said on Thursday.

The top tier lender made a 255.9 billion naira pretax profit in 2020, beating its guidance of 253 billion naira.

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(Reporting by Chijioke Ohuocha; Editing by Susan Fenton)