Nigeria
Betting in Nigeria: bookmakers, licensing and payments
There is no single authority to name for Nigeria, and that absence is the first fact this page has to give you: read the licence line on each row as a quotation, and check it against the state or region you are actually in.
What is settled here
- Minimum age
- 18
- Currency
- NGN
- Authority
- no single authority
- Legal basis
- Supreme Court judgment of 22 November 2024: the National Lottery Act has no national reach, and licensing belongs to the states.
How money moves in Nigeria
- NIBSS bank transfer
- Paystack
- Flutterwave
- OPay
- Moniepoint
- USSD
- Verve card
These are the rails the country runs on. Whether a given bookmaker reaches all of them is a separate question, and it is answered on the rows that publish it.
Bookmakers licensed in Nigeria
Read this as an overview and not as a country table: it puts every row on one page so the differences between the three markets are visible side by side, and the Licensed in column is the first column for that reason. The table you act on is the one under your own country, because a permit issued next door is not a permit here. The first column repeats the country named on the operator's own licence line. The second gives the body named beside that line, and where a footer prints a number with nobody attached to it this column says so rather than supplying a plausible name; two of the Nigerian rows are in that position, and for anyone about to fund an account it is the most useful cell on the row. The third column carries the permit numbers themselves, all of them where a footer prints more than one. Nothing in these three columns has been checked against a register. They are quotations, and the ordering figure beside them is arithmetic over the weights published on How we rate.