Lafarge Wapco said on Monday its first-quarter pretax profit rose to NGN8.62bn (US$54m), up 20 per cent from NGN7.20bn in the same period of last year.

Turnover at the Nigerian unit of France’s Lafarge, rose to NGN27.03bn during the three months to March, against NGN23.23bn a year earlier, it said in a filing with Nigerian Stock Exchange.