The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its pivotal role in helping Nigeria meet its 2025 revenue target.

The acknowledgment came on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, when FIRS Executive Chairman, Mr. Zach Adedeji, led his management team on a courtesy visit to the EFCC’s corporate headquarters in Abuja to formally express gratitude.

A statement signed by Mr. Dele Oyewale, Head, Media & Publicity, EFCC, and the statement reads: “If you listened to Mr. President last week, we were being praised to high heavens for meeting our revenue target. But you know it is wrong to assume that we are the only ones doing the job. So, we take it upon ourselves that we need to visit and take Mr. President’s appreciation to our partners. So, I just came and commend the kind of relationship we have and how you really helped us in achieving our goal and by extension in sustaining financial stability of Nigeria.

“Our visit is to commend you for your support and the second phase is to seek your cooperation. The main advertisement of compliance is when people begin to see what we use the money we collected for, and in achieving that goal, you are critical. We are going into another budget cycle where we are trying to reform our expenditure framework. So, we came to seek your partnership in helping us to have that transparent expenditure framework, that we collaborate on our voluntary compliance drive for Nigerian Revenue Service. We want to have a system that we aid taxpayers’ compliance.”

In his response, EFCC Executive Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, praised FIRS for achieving the revenue milestone and pledged continued collaboration.

Olukoyede added, “I want to congratulate you on the no mean feat that you have achieved in this short period. I’m not sure there is a time in the history of Nigeria that we met our revenue target by August. Many people don’t understand the econometrics involved in that. I want to thank you for your commitment to this cause. It’s important for us to work together. Collaboration is very key. When they see EFCC beside FIRS, that sends a signal to the entire public that it’s no longer going to be business as usual.”