Hyphen (-), I'd suggest that you use a virtual card - Chipper or Barter to make deposits. This should work if the Nigerian banks isn't working. You just need to create an account and fund it. Then you can get the virtual Naira or Dollar card. Before it used to be free but I recently heard they now charge a small fee. Nevertheless it is worth it if you want seamless transactions.
I was tired yesterday and unable to fully quote and comment about your post. It is true that if you use Chipper Cash virtual card, the payment would be successful, but it is not advisable.
I do not know as of now when naira has been devaluated, but before , I used Chipper Cash virtual card to pay for YouTube premium personal account, it it ₦1100, I sent ₦10000 to Chipper Cash, dollar card was still ₦2000 at the time which was 2 or 3 months ago. I went for dollar card. Instead of ₦1100 to be deducted from me, ₦1750 was deducted.
Let me agree that ₦1700 was deducted
₦2000 for the dollar card
₦1700 for the subscription
I withdraw the remaining money and it remained ₦5250, instead of ₦6250. Or maybe I made the mistake of dollar card? Was the fee increased or I thought it was ₦2000? I will like if you can answer this. Let me leave it beside for now.
Chipper Cash dollar conversion rate is not favorable. Let me show you in a screenshot:
Buy at ₦901
Sell at ₦788
Is that not like a scam?
You will still pay for the card if it is the first time that you are using it. The dollar card now is ₦3000
Buy and sell for P2P is far better. Let me show you the rate I can screenshot on Kucoin now:
I did not use Chipper cash for like 2 months because of their stupidity and ways of making money too much from customers and my YouTube transaction was declined, I later wish to subscribe again just like how you can think while using bank card, my dollar card has which supposed to last for 3 years has been deactivated, saying their are many declined transactions. What banks can not do. No bank has done that to me before.
So my conclusion is that Chipper Cash should not be used for this when there are better alternatives, centralizedexchangesP2P is far better. Not that Chipper Cash has privacy, why going for it when you can use the centralizedexchangesP2P that has no privacy too.
Only what that can be good while using Chipper Cash is to buy airtime, send and receive naira. But converting to dollar to make transaction is not favoring at all. I wish we can go back to master card which I read that some banks have allowed again by now.