The eNaira speed wallet application (App) has disappeared barely 48 hours after the digital currency was launched on Monday.
But unofficial explanation from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is that the App was upgraded due to the huge traffic it has attracted, adding that Google brought down the old eNaira App before the CBN could upload the new one.
There is, however, an assurance that the new App will be up and running again on Google Playstore. What happened was a technical glitch. The eNaira App is still running on iOS.
eNaira is a digital currency issued by the CBN. It’s a digital form of the naira that is housed in a secured wallet called the eNaira wallet.
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The digital currency has two applications — eNaira speed wallet and eNaira merchant wallet.
To access the eNaira, users have to download the ‘speed wallet’, which allows users to conduct transactions with speed and ease.
Aside Google Store, the wallet can also be downloaded from the Apple Store.
The speed wallet for eNaira recorded over 100,000 downloads on Google Playstore alone following its launch.