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NRS Fixes 2028 for e- invoicing tax collections full takeoff

The project manager for the implementation of e-invoicing in NRS, Mr. Mohammed Bawa, disclosed this during a workshop organised by the NRS and eTransact, to sensitize taxpayers on how to transition from manual invoicing to e-invoicing.

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February 18, 2026

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The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has set a three year plan, up to January 2028, for the full implementation of the electronic -invoicing for tax collection in the country.

Bawa said that the NRS is aware that the implementation may not go smoothly as planned hence it has segmented the implementation in three stages starting with the large taxpayers, then medium taxpayers and then the emerging taxpayers.

“For complete transition, we are looking at precisely January 2028.Within the last one year, we’ve been speaking directly to only large taxpayers and organizing so many engagements for them to ease the adoption process,” he said.

In the timelines, we started with the large taxpayers last year and by April this year full enforcement will start.

“We are giving attention to medium taxpayers in 2026, those with turnover between N1 billion and N5 billion.

We will do stakeholder engagements for them for three months, then we’ll do a pilot for another three months before we can announce the go-live from July 1, 2026, and enforcement January-March 2027.”

For the Emerging Taxpayers those whose turnover is below ₦1 billion, Bawa said their own engagement starts from January to March 2027, pilot rollout April-June 2027, go-live July 1, 2027, and enforcement January-March 2028.

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Cardoso Urges Banks To Lend Out Idle Funds With CBN * Retains MPR at 26.5%

Cardoso made the call on Tuesday after the 306th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held in Abuja from July 20 to July 21.

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso , urged banks from keeping idle funds with the apex bank and encouraging increased lending into the economy.

Cardoso made the call on Tuesday after the 306th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held in Abuja from July 20 to July 21.

The apex bank retained the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), also known as benchmark interest rate, at 26. 5 percent.

This decision marks the second consecutive retention of the MPR at 26.5 per cent, following a 50-basis-point reduction in February from 27 per cent.

“The committee’s decision to maintain the current policy stand follows a thorough assessment of the balance of risk,” said Cardoso.

He emphasised that although headline inflation moderated marginally in June 2026, global uncertainties have heightened due mainly to the renewed hostilities in the Middle East.

The MPC also adjusted the asymmetric facilities corridor around the MPR to +50/-450 basis points—a move aimed at discouraging banks from keeping idle fund with CBN.

Furthermore, the committee maintained the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) for commercial banks at 45 per cent, retained the rate for merchant banks at 16 per cent, and kept the CRR on non-TSA public-sector deposits at 75 per cent for liquidity management considerations.

Cardoso said despite the global uncertainties, the Nigerian economy has “remained largely resilient to the external shocks”.

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CBN admits it opened domiciliary accounts for PFIPC agency

Represented by the Director of its Banking Services Department, Hamisu Ibrahim, the CBN said that the accounts are one in US dollars, the other in British pounds sterling, were opened following a mandate received from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

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The Central Bank of Nigeria had admitted that it opened two foreign-currency domiciliary accounts for the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).

The apex bank made the confirmation, yesterday, during the public hearing convened at the National Assembly Complex by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the existence and operations of the PFIPC, chaired by Yusuf Gagdi and inaugurated by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.

He explained that on July 30, 2025, CBN received a mandate dated July 29, 2025 from the Office of the Accountant-General.

“We received the mandate to authorise two accounts, one a US dollar domiciliary account, the other a pound domiciliary account, for the Presidential Economic Advisory Council/Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council,” Ibrahim told the committee.

He explained the CBN’s verification process, “The process of opening an account requires a mandate from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

“Once we receive that mandate, we perform all the necessary verifications to confirm that this mandate is actually coming from that office.

The department that handles the mandate is different from the department that actually does the account opening,” he said.

Nevertheless, he noted that no one came to activate the accounts after they were opened.“We did not receive any correspondence, mandate, signature or mandate cards. We were not introduced to the authorising or approving officers.“Based on that, those accounts remain inactive, with zero balance. There have been no foreign exchange allocations.