The team, comprising CBN staff and representatives of some commercial banks, took the campaign to Singer Market Wednesday in Kano metropolis.
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Bayo Akintoye, Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Bullnet platform, unveiled it at a media parley on Thursday in Lagos.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, performed the unveiling during the inauguration of the USSD transaction code.
The Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the grand finale of: “eNaira Hackathon.”
With the introduction of eNaira on Remita, individuals and businesses can now make and receive payments with eNaira for all utilities, services, and products available on the Remita web and mobile platforms as well as through the Remita Payment Gateway deployed to thousands of merchants and aggregators.
With the introduction of eNaira on Remita, individuals and businesses can now make and receive payments with eNaira for all utilities, services, and products available on the Remita web and mobile platforms as well as through the Remita Payment Gateway deployed to thousands of merchants and aggregators.
Emefiele made the assertion yesterday on innovation in Nigeria’s payments system ecosystem, he said the registration for the eNaira hackathon, geared towards ideating innovative solutions for the newly launched digital currency, organized by the Africa Fintech Foundry (an innovative hub established to identify and accelerate innovative startups in Africa), in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is billed to open on June 27, 2022 and run till July 21, 2022.
In a telephone conversation with newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, the Director, Corporate Communications Department of the apex bank, Osita Nwanisobi, disclaimed that the statement purportedly to have been made during a stakeholders’ engagement on eNaira adoption in Asaba, Delta state was misconstrued and therefore called on the general public to disregard such in its entirety.
According to the report, Ecobank is leading in merchant adoption, followed by Access Bank, Zenith Bank, Union Bank, First Bank, UBA, and Polaris Bank. Others banks in the top 10 list include Keystone Bank, GTB, and Wema Bank – in that order.
Emefiele made the disclosure at the 56th Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria Annual Bankers Dinner, on Friday.
The Editors also commended the CBN for its interventions, most of which have helped in the journey to economic diversification of the nation’s economy.
CBDCs, in broad terms, are digital innovations that will fundamentally revolutionise the financial sector as we know it.
For the record, it makes Nigeria the first ever African country to embrace the eWallet system of transaction.
President Muhammadu Buhari launched the central bank digital currency, called eNaira, on Monday.
This revelation was made about the App download as the apex bank released regulatory guidelines for the Naira.
Recall that President Buhari had on September 15, 2021, sworn in three of the cleared National Commissioners.
The President also declared that the introduction of the eNaira would enable the government to send direct payments to citizens eligible for specific welfare programmes as well as foster cross border trade.