
Abbey Mortgage Bank surges 10% to lead NGX gainers
A stock that traded quietly for weeks just became the most active equity on the entire Nigerian Exchange on June 5, 2026.

Something unusual happened to First HoldCo Plc on the Nigerian Exchange on June 10, 2026, and it had nothing to do with a crash or a rally.

A stock that traded quietly for weeks just became the most active equity on the entire Nigerian Exchange on June 5, 2026.

If you checked the Central Bank of Nigeria’s exchange rate dashboard in early June 2026, the numbers looked reassuring at first glance.

On June 4, 2026, the naira settled at N1,359.75 per dollar at the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market window.

Nigeria ended May 2026 with $49.58 billion in external reserves, a figure that seemed improbable when the country’s foreign exchange cushion sat at roughly $32 billion in mid-April 2024.

For the better part of two years, agentic AI in banking has been discussed mostly as an internal efficiency story, in which autonomous software helps employees underwrite loans faster, triage fraud alerts, or write code.