Barely 48 hours after its launch, the eNaira speed wallet application has been removed from Google Playstore.
A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) source however said the application was upgraded due to the huge traffic it has attracted. Google, the source said, brought down the old eNaira app before the CBN could upload the new one.”The CBN assured that the new app will be up and running very soon on Google Playstore. What happened was a technical glitch. The eNaira app is still running on iOS,” the Nation reports.
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.
To access the eNaira, users have to download the ‘speed wallet’, which allows users to conduct transactions with speed and ease.
Aside from the Google Store, the wallet can also be downloaded from the Apple Store.
Checkout Magazine learnt that that the speed wallet for eNaira recorded over 100,000 downloads on Google Playstore alone after it was launched.
In a statement on the eNaira website, CBN had said interested individuals can sign-up on the eNaira speed wallet by inputting their details as captured during BVN enrollment.
“Your Banks are waiting to assist you in validating and updating your BVN details to ensure seamless enrolment to the eNaira Platform,” the statement reads.
