Nigeria, Sept. 8 -- The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives on Monday announced the recovery of over N200 billion in lost revenue for the federal government in the last year.

Chairman of the committee, Bamidele Salam, disclosed this at the opening of the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC), which Nigeria is hosting for the first time since the body was established in 2009.

The five-day programme, holding from 8 to 12 September at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, is themed "Strengthening Parliamentary Oversight of Public Debt: The Role of Finance and Public Accounts Committees."

Mr Salam described the recovery as evidence of wh...