Following a strong positive first half (H1) of the year results, Total Nigeria Plc has proposed to pay a total sum of N1.358 billion in interim dividend for the period ended June 30, 2021.
The amount represents an interim dividend of N4 per 50 kobo ordinary share, according to the statement signed by Bunmi Popoola-Mordi, Company Secretary, Total Nigeria Plc.
Dividends, subject to appropriate withholding tax and approval, will be paid to shareholders whose names appear in the Register of Members as at the close of business on the 13th of August, 2021.
On payment, the company said dividends will be paid electronically to shareholders whose names appear on the Register of Members as at 13th of August, 2021, and who have completed the e-dividend registration and mandated the Registrar to pay their dividends directly into their Bank accounts.
The Register of Shareholders will be closed from Monday the 16th Day of August, 2021 to Friday the 20th Day of August, 2021.
However, shareholders who are yet to complete the e-dividend registration are advised to download the Registrar’s E-Dividend Mandate Activation Form, also available on the company’s Registrars website: https://cardinalstoneregistrars.com/wpcontent/uploads/2017/11/EDMMS-Upload-Form.pdf complete and submit to the Registrar or their respective Banks.
Total Nigeria grew profit after tax by 1,601 percent from -N537.188 million posted in the first half of 2020 to N8.1 billion in the first half of 2021.
At the just concluded Annual General Meeting, Stanislas Mittelman, the chairman of Total Nigeria, said: “We are in an era of transformation, Total’s new ambition is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 together with the society.”
This, he said, “is in consonance with the federal government of Nigeria’s national gas expansion programme. Going forward, the federal government has announced that compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas are expected to be the fuel of choice for many government-owned cars.”