The Federal Government has been losing billions of naira to illegal lottery operators practicing on different platforms across the country.
The Director-General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Mr Lanre Gbajabiamila, who spoke in Abuja yesterday, warned that anyone caught operating illegal lottery scheme will face the law.
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The lottery chief who spoke on the sidelines of a two-day training programme for NLRC workers and other stakeholders, said the had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to check the activities of the illegal operators.
According to him, with the measures being put in place by the NLRC and the NCC, it would be difficult for illegal operators to defraud unsuspecting members of the public without being apprehended.
Gbajabiamila said: “We are committed to enforcing the laws and ensuring that the operators comply with the regulations. We still carried out some enforcement last week and we will continue to do that.
We are actually after the online operators because many of them are operating illegally.
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