{"id":15870,"date":"2025-12-09T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/fg-bans-cash-payments-for-its-services\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:45:00","slug":"fg-bans-cash-payments-for-its-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edumarkng.com\/news\/fg-bans-cash-payments-for-its-services\/","title":{"rendered":"FG bans cash payments for its services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-87.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"FG bans cash payments for its services\" title=\"FG bans cash payments for its services\" \/><\/div><p>FG bans cash payments for its services, <\/p>\n<p><strong>By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government, FG, is set to implement a full cashless policy in the collection of its revenues, banning cash payments, with effect from January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Under the arrangement, a new mandatory e-receipt system (FTeR) and a full-scale rollout of the Revenue Optimisation (RevOp) Platform will be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>A document released by the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja yesterday showed that the RevOp, a unified digital ecosystem for monitoring, reconciling, and optimising government revenues, would apply to all FG agencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, \u201cAs from January 1, 2026, the Federal Treasury eReceipt (FTeR) will become the only valid and legally recognised receipt for all federal government transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major shift in how Nigerians pay for government services and how such payments are verified.<br \/>\u201cIt directly affects citizens, businesses, MDAs, financial institutions, and digital service providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it expects the new policy to assist the government in making huge savings and recover even revenue earlier considered lost<\/p>\n<p>It stated further: \u201cBy outlawing unauthorised deductions, commissions, or charges taken before remittance to the TSA, the government expects to eliminate substantial leakages that currently occur within MDAs using unapproved PSSP platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also described the development as, \u201cA critical milestone in Nigeria\u2019s anti-corruption and fiscal transparency agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RevOp will, \u201coperationalise the Minister\u2019s broader economic strategy: reducing human discretion, eliminating cash handling, enforcing full audit trails, and using real-time digital insights to strengthen accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt marks the biggest consolidation of Nigeria\u2019s digital public finance infrastructure in a decade<br \/>\u201cTSA, GIFMIS, CBN, NIBSS, FIRS, and MDAs will now speak to each other in a unified digital environment through RevOp,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/12\/fg-bans-cash-payments-for-its-services-2\/\">FG bans cash payments for its services<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>, <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government, FG, is set to implement a full cashless policy in the collection of its revenues, banning cash payments, with effect from January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/12\/fg-bans-cash-payments-for-its-services-2\/\">FG bans cash payments for its services<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>, <!-- no image -->, Idowu Bankole, {authorlink},, , Vanguard News, December 9, 2025, 1:45 am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FG bans cash payments for its services, By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Federal Government, FG, is set to implement a full cashless policy in the collection of its revenues, banning cash payments, with effect from January 1, 2026. 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