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BETBABA urges Nigeria’s NLRC to introduce responsible-gambling rules

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BETBABA urged Nigeria’s National Lottery Regulatory Commission to introduce rules aimed at discouraging gambling addiction. Managing director Francis Ifie said the platform offers self-exclusion and may notify customers and limit their activity when betting patterns raise concern; he also called for operators to enforce the legal betting age of 18.

Responsible-gambling rules could shape operators’ self-exclusion, customer monitoring and enforcement of the legal betting age.

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Brazilian Congress president extends betting ban measure by 60 days

Brazil’s Congress president, Davi Alcolumbre, extended the provisional measure prohibiting fixed-odds betting for a further 60 days, with the decision published on 11 November. The extension gives lawmakers until February to consider the measure, which would end betting authorisations, block websites and apps, and return user balances; the government estimates the ban would reduce revenue by BRL12bn.

Brazil’s provisional ban on fixed-odds betting has been extended by another 60 days by Congress president Davi Alcolumbre. The decision appeared in the federal official gazette on Wednesday 11.

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