The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has started a huge e-Naira drive among okada riders (motorcyclists) and tricycle operators nationwide, in a push to grow the membership base of the Central bank’s digital currency.

The Director, Information Technology of the bank, Hajiya Rakiya Mohammed, who took the e-Naira enlistment mission to the tricycle riders at the Galadimawa Indirect in Abuja, this evening, said that the e-Naira was the best approach for both high and low pay workers.

The Director, who was represented by Dr. Khalipha Nuhu, a Data Innovation Official in the division, told reporters in a meeting at the occasion, “We are here today for the e-Naira reception drive. E-Naira is the CBN digital currency, what might be compared to the Naira we go through on the everyday premise. We are here today to create more awareness; to tell individuals with this new type of cash; get individuals to understand what it implies and to locally available individuals to involve it in an improved and secured transactions.

“We are here to register people to the platform and we are here today to engage the wider community of Keke-NAPEP riders. Our adoption drive covers all sectors and all segments. That is from government institutions, big businesses, MSMEs and day-to-day traders.”

“In partnership with one of our adoption partners, Bizi Mobile Nigeria, we are engaging the Keke NAPEP Community so that we can educate them on what e-Naira is and how they can be registered unto the platform which we call onboarding and how they can use the platform for exchange and how they also help us to be ambassadors for this products which is a national asset for everyone in the country.