{"id":10968,"date":"2022-02-12T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2022-02-12T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:25:17","slug":"nndc-agm-shareholders-approve-distribution-of-n100-million-cash-dividends-n25-million-bonus-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968","title":{"rendered":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The New Nigeria Development Company Limited (NNDC) has approved\u00a0 the distribution of cash dividends of N100 million (equating to 20 kobo per share).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It also approved the distribution of N25 million of bonus shares, equating to 1 bonus share for every 20 shares held by the shareholders of NNDC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In addition, the AGM approved an appropriation of N15 million each for the Young Professionals Development Scheme and Musa Bello Learning Centre respectively.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">These approvals were given during the company&#8217;s Annual General Meeting (AGM)) for the financial year ended 31st March 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Shareholders\u2019 approval was announced by the Chairman of the Company, Tanimu Yakubu while presenting the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31st March, 2021 during the 53rd Annual General Meeting held on Friday, 11th February, 2022.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Commenting on the progress achieved by the company during the year under review, the Chairman noted that, turnover stood at N629.15 million against the corresponding period\u2019s figure of N625.58 million which represents an increase of N5.57 million or 0.98%.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Operating expenses for the period under review stood at N541.99 million as against the preceding year\u2019s figure of N589.91 million giving a favourable variance of N47.92 million or 8.8%. Pre-tax profit for the year ended 31st March, 2021 stood at N335.42 million against the corresponding period\u2019s pre-tax of N273.22 million.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Yakubu stated that the company continued to manage investments in associate and quoted companies with a view to optimizing returns while pursuing an optimal management strategy for the subsidiary companies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that the nominal value of NNDC quoted investments stood at N692.14 million as against their combined market value at N10.61 billion as at 31st March, 2021.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He further stated that Shareholder\u2019s Funds stood at N19.21 billion as of 31st March 2021.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On Manpower Development, the Chairman said, the Company continued to support the Manpower Power Development Scheme (YPDS) and Students Special Project (SSP) where graduates of Northern Origin are trained to be Chartered Accountants, Chartered Insurers, Stock brokers and IT Specialist. He disclosed that so far NNDC have 1438 Professionals, in these fields in Kaduna, Kano, Ilorin and Gombe centres, in conjunction with our Partner, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the future outlook of the company, the Board Chairman, said, \u201cWe are optimistic about the next financial year as it is anticipated that various policies of the government would start having positive impacts on the business environment\u2019\u2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said NNDC shall continue to pursue vigorously the various initiatives that the Company has put in place, while taking advantages of new business opportunities with a view to improving the Company\u2019s earnings. NNDC expect both local and foreign partners to play major roles in this regard.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">[<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares The New Nigeria Development Company Limited (NNDC) has approved\u00a0 the distribution of cash dividends of N100 million (equating to 20 kobo per share). It also approved the distribution of N25 million of bonus shares, equating to 1 bonus share for every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares The New Nigeria Development Company Limited (NNDC) has approved\u00a0 the distribution of cash dividends of N100 million (equating to 20 kobo per share). It also approved the distribution of N25 million of bonus shares, equating to 1 bonus share for every [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-12T19:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"740\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ZAINAB TANIMU\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ZAINAB TANIMU\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968\",\"name\":\"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-12T19:25:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/faffbb141ad72e9bc665f603c95ca365\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":740},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/faffbb141ad72e9bc665f603c95ca365\",\"name\":\"ZAINAB TANIMU\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e89828a0637116ffc513026e478f73fd30000bfffd8574e845936fb44d48266?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e89828a0637116ffc513026e478f73fd30000bfffd8574e845936fb44d48266?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"ZAINAB TANIMU\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?author=5\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -","og_description":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares The New Nigeria Development Company Limited (NNDC) has approved\u00a0 the distribution of cash dividends of N100 million (equating to 20 kobo per share). It also approved the distribution of N25 million of bonus shares, equating to 1 bonus share for every [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968","article_published_time":"2022-02-12T19:25:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":740,"url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"ZAINAB TANIMU","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"ZAINAB TANIMU","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968","url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968","name":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares -","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-12T19:25:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/faffbb141ad72e9bc665f603c95ca365"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg","width":1024,"height":740},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=10968#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NNDC AGM: Shareholders Approve Distribution Of N100 Million Cash Dividends, N25 Million\u00a0 Bonus Shares"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/faffbb141ad72e9bc665f603c95ca365","name":"ZAINAB TANIMU","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e89828a0637116ffc513026e478f73fd30000bfffd8574e845936fb44d48266?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e89828a0637116ffc513026e478f73fd30000bfffd8574e845936fb44d48266?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"ZAINAB TANIMU"},"url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?author=5"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220212_55232.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9l2uQ-2QU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}