Central Bank to Engage 7,740 e-Naira Agents Across Nigeria

To boost grassroots adoption, the Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that it will install and engage a minimum of 10 e-Naira agents from each of the 774 local governments in Nigeria. 

Speaking at an awareness programme organised for tricycle drivers in Abuja, the CBN coordinator, and the technical working committee on e-Naira, Hajiya Rekiya Mohammed stated that the apex bank aims to drive adoption among those who make frequent daily transactions. 

Hajiya Reikiya further stated that e-Naira will be incentivised for tricycle drivers and their customers. 

She noted that any tricycle driver who does payment transactions with his customer on the e-Naira platform will get a 5 percent discount while the customer also gets an equal amount of discount on the actual price of the transport fare.

Hajiya Reikiya who was represented at the sensitisation program by Dr Khalipha Nuhu also revealed that the awareness programme will be taken to all nooks and crannies of the country until the e-Naira is widely accepted. 

Furthermore, Dr Nuhu also informed the tricycle drivers that the e-Naira platform does not require literacy before it can be used. 

Investors King learnt that the e-Naira platform can be used in any of the three major languages in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Dr Aminu Bizi, a consultant with the CBN who was part of the sensitisation program also disclosed that the apex bank is targeting a minimum of 10 agents in each of the 774 local governments across Nigeria. Putting the total number of agents expected to be engaged at 7,740.

It will be recalled that in October 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria launched the e-Naira as a form of digital Naira. This makes Nigeria become the first African country and one of the very few in the world to adopt a digital currency. 

Investors King had earlier reported in August that the e-Naira platform has recorded more than N4 billion in transactions since its take-off last year.

So far, the e-Naira platform has attracted almost a million active users. It can be downloaded on both Google Playstore and Apple Store or used by simply dialling *997# on any mobile phone.