Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris, yesterday revealed that Nigeria has collected more than N2.7 trillion ($13.57 billion) through the Treasury Single set up by government to consolidate all states revenues in an effort to improve fiscal transparency. He further stated that these monies belong to Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, and meant for their operations and not for sharing or for any other purposes as being reported in some quarters. According to Idris, the TSA has helped government to have a firm and full control of its resources, block leakages, helped it reduce the cost of borrowing and to monitor spending in the MDAs. President Muhammadu Buhari, who was elected on an anti-corruption ticket and who has said he believes government officials have stolen around $150 billion from the public purse in the past decade, ordered all state accounts to be merged into one last August. Speaking at an interactive session with journalists in Ab...