The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said the reason for the sudden disappearance of the newly launched e-naira speed wallet from Google’s play store is temporary.
Director of Corporate Communications of the bank, Osita Nwanisobi, who spoke on Thursday in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state, said the app’s disappearance was only temporary as it was undergoing an important upgrade aimed at tackling glitches noticed since its launch.
Nwanisobi at a CBN Fair for the southeast geo-political zone, which held simultaneously in Ebonyi and Abịa States, said the app is expected to be back today after the upgrade.
He assured that the app is well secured as it relied on encryption technology with two factor verification to make it difficult to be bridged.
The e-Naira Speed Wallet app had gone missing from the Google Play Store just days after its launch on Monday, 25th of October 2021. The app had over 200,000 wallets downloaded in 24 hours before it went missing indicative of massive interest in the Central Bank’s digital currency.
A quick search on Google Play store indicated absence of the e-Naira Speed Wallet app but the eNaira Speed Merchant wallet app is still available for download on android.
The CBN spokesman Nigerians are partly responsible for the glitches noticed which he said contributed to the temporary disappearance from the play store.
As per his explanation, the glitches were caused by the inability of many Nigerians to input their correct details while signing up on the app.
