Paystack incident

Nigeria: Delays and Increased Failures for Outward Transfer Processing

Major Resolved

Paystack experienced a major incident on August 31, 2026 affecting NIGERIA (Bank), lasting 40m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 31, 2026, 07:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 31, 2026, 07:51 AM UTC
Duration
40m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 31, 2026, 07:10 AM UTC

Affected components

NIGERIA (Bank)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 31, 2026, 07:10 AM UTC

    We are currently experiencing delays and increased failures in the processing of Outward Transfers. This means that attempts to transfer funds to bank accounts may fail. We are currently investigating and will share updates as soon as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

  2. monitoring Aug 31, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

    We've implemented a fix, and are now monitoring. Outward Transfers should continue processing normally.

  3. resolved Aug 31, 2026, 07:51 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.