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Why trust has become Nigeria’s next digital payments challenge

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July 29, 2026

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Why trust has become Nigeria’s next digital payments challenge
Source: TechCabal

Nigeria no longer has a payments problem. It has a trust problem. That is the central argument of a new report by Bridgforte, a policy research institute, published in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Innovation Hub in Lagos, w

Nigeria no longer has a payments problem. It has a trust problem.

That is the central argument of a new report by Bridgforte, a policy research institute, published in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Innovation Hub in Lagos, which argues that confidence in Nigeria's financial system is now determined less by how quickly money moves than by how reliably the system responds when something goes wrong.

The country processed more than ₦1.2 quad

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