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eNaira Hits N4b in Transactions, 200K Subscribers, says CBN

Yinka Okeowo by Yinka Okeowo
August 18, 2022
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Since its launch in 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) digital currency, eNaira, has recorded 200,000 volumes and N4 billion in transaction value.

At the “eNaira Hackathon” grand finale on Thursday in Abuja, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele made this statement.

eNaira was inaugurated on Oct. 25, 2021, by President Muhammadu Buhari, making Nigeria the first African country to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

TechEconomy reports that the hackathon is a CBN collaborative initiative with the African Fintech Foundry (AFF).

it is aimed at bringing together teams of talented entrepreneurs, developers, designers, solution developers, problem-solvers, and ‘code magicians’ from Africa to develop innovative solutions for improved adoption of the eNaira.

The competition was part of efforts by the CBN to drive financial inclusion, facilitate macroeconomic growth and integrate the Nigerian economy into the world-leading economies through innovation and cutting-edge emerging technologies.

Emefiele said since its inauguration, eNaira had reached 840,000 downloads, with about 270,000 active wallets, comprising more than 252,000 consumer wallets and 17,000 merchant wallets.

He claims that the digital currency will increase financial inclusion, aid in the eradication of poverty, provide the direct distribution of welfare benefits to citizens, support a robust payments environment, and increase the availability and usability of central bank reserves.

“The eNaira will also facilitate diaspora remittances, reduce the cost of processing cash, and also reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of cross-border payments,” he said.

The apex bank governor, however, said that the eNaira was the same Naira with far more possibilities.

“The eNaira will make a significant positive difference to Nigeria and Nigerians. It was also developed to provide Nigerians with a cheap, safe, and trusted means of payment.

“It is unlike the offline payments channels like agent networks, USSD, wearables, cards, and near field communication technology.

“The eNaira would give access to financial services to underserved and unbanked segments of the population,” he said.

He said that innovative products and services built on the eNaira would enhance Nigerians’ participation in the digital economy and promote further development of a burgeoning Fintech ecosystem.

“To achieve these set-out objectives, the project adopted a phased- approach with the first phase focusing on banked users, while the policy objective of the second phase borders around financial inclusion.

“In addition, the eNaira platform possesses an innovation layer for products and services to be built to enhance Nigerians’ participation in the digital economy,” he said.

According to Emefiele, the second phase of the project has begun and is intended to drive financial inclusion by onboarding unbanked and underserved users leveraging offline channels.

He said that the CBN was now ready to accommodate unbanked Nigerians in the eNaira platform

“Greater success is envisioned for the project with phase two expected to deliver more gains with a target of about eight million active users based on estimations using the diffusion of innovation model.

“When we launched the eNaira, we promised to increase the level of financial inclusion in the Country because just like the Naira, the eNaira is expected to be accessible to all Nigerians.

“It will provide more possibilities to bring in the unbanked into the digital economy.

” I am pleased to inform you that by next week, Nigerians, both banked and unbanked, will be able to open an eNaira wallet and conduct transactions by simply dialing *997 from their phones,” he said.

According to Mr. Kingsley Obiora, CBN’s Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, the use of physical cash is gradually getting out of fashion across the globe due to the growth of digital currencies.

“In South Korea, 77 percent no longer use cash to do a payment, while in the Philippines it is 30 percent.

“In Nigeria, we are also seeing the same decline in the use of cash, the minting of currencies in the CBN has been reducing in the last couple of years.

“So alongside this reduction in the use of cash has also been an explosion in e-business and we have seen the value of e-business grow from 393 billion dollars in 2014 to about 2.4 trillion dollars now.

“If you look at this movement, you will realize that the central banks in the world are responding to the yearnings of citizens.

“That is why 96 percent of central banks in the world are either working on digital currencies or they have done so already,” he said.

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