Outage in Paystack

Nigeria: Delay in Completing Transfers.

Resolved Minor

September 19, 2025 - Started 7 months ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Incident Report

We are experiencing a downtime with the Central Switch in Nigeria. As a result, you may experience: 1. Delays for transfers to Paystack Titan and Wema managed accounts across both Pay with Transfer (PwT) and Dedicated Virtual Accounts (DVA) 2. Delays in processing outward transfers to ALL bank accounts We're working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as it has been resolved.

Components affected

Paystack API Paystack Transfers Paystack Virtual Account Numbers

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RESOLVED 7 months ago - at 09/19/2025 04:44PM

This incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING 7 months ago - at 09/19/2025 11:01AM

We are experiencing a downtime with the Central Switch in Nigeria.

As a result, you may experience:
1. Delays for transfers to Paystack Titan and Wema managed accounts across both Pay with Transfer (PwT) and Dedicated Virtual Accounts (DVA)
2. Delays in processing outward transfers to ALL bank accounts

We're working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as it has been resolved.

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