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Global Financial Service Disruptions
Nigeria Central Switch (most likely NIBSS NIP)
clearing settlement · NG · Africa
UnexplainedStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 2 of 5Evidence confidence: mediumAnalyst-verified
Third Central Switch failure in the window: Paystack reported inward Nigerian bank transfers failing on 4 Nov 2026 from 10:57 to 14:55 UTC.
- First disruption
- Nov 4 10:57 UTC
- First public signal
- unknown
- Acknowledged
- Nov 4 10:57 UTC
- Restored
- Nov 4 14:55 UTC
- Duration
- 3.97 hours
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
instant paymentstransfers inScope: country wide
Inward transfers to Paystack Pay with Transfer and virtual accounts failing.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- 'Downtime with Bank Transfers', Central Switch
- DFX classification
- Unexplained (cyber: unconfirmed)
Evidence
- Paystack status page (Atom feed) · 2026-11-05