Nigeria has opened up a licensing system for sports lottery operators, with Wesco Pools and Lottery the first company to secure a licence.
It was announced at a meeting of the governing body of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) last week.
At the meeting, the NLRC decided that sports lotteries - lotteries whose results are determined by the outcome of sporting events - would be regulated under the terms of Section 57 of the 2005 [...]
