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CORRECTED - (OFFICIAL)-Nigeria's Skye Bank posts full yr loss

Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:05pm EDT

(Corrects headline and first paragraph to full year, not fourth quarter, loss)

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LAGOS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Skye Bank SKYE.LG posted a 12.63 billion naira ($84.70 million) pretax loss in the 12 months to Sept. 30, compared with a pretax profit of 20.42 billion naira in the same period a year earlier.

Gross earnings at the bank rose 36 percent to 101.44 billion naira from 74.61 billion naira a year earlier, it said in a filing to the Nigerian Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Tume Ahemba; editing by David Cowell)

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