Paystack incident
Nigeria: Downtime on transactions with Nigerian-issued cards
Ongoing since 07:36 AM UTC, affecting NIGERIA (Cards).
We are currently observing a higher than usual failure rate on transactions made with **cards issued by Nigerian banks as a result of a processor downtime.** **As a result, transactions made with such cards may fail.** We are working with our processing partner to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and we will provide updates as soon as normal service is restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 27, 2026, 07:36 AM UTC
We are currently observing a higher than usual failure rate on transactions made with **cards issued by Nigerian banks as a result of a processor downtime.** **As a result, transactions made with such cards may fail.** We are working with our processing partner to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and we will provide updates as soon as normal service is restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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