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Lagos attorney general challenges National Assembly gaming bill

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Lagos State Attorney General Lawal Pedro said the state had returned to court to initiate contempt proceedings over the National Assembly’s proposed Central Gaming Bill. Pedro argued that the bill exceeds federal legislative powers, citing a Supreme Court ruling that placed lotteries and games of chance under state jurisdiction.

The court challenge puts state authority over lotteries and games of chance at the center of Nigeria’s proposed federal bill.

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Brazil’s attorney-general urges Supreme Court to uphold betting ban

Brazil’s attorney-general, Jorge Messias, urged the Supreme Federal Court to preserve Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which prohibited fixed-odds betting in the country. He argued that the betting framework failed to protect public health, dignity and families sufficiently, while also saying regulation and administrative enforcement had been efficient.

At a public hearing on Tuesday, 3 November, the Union's attorney-general, Jorge Messias, asked the Supreme Federal Court to keep Provisional Measure 1.394/2026 whole, the measure that banned fixed-odds betting in Brazil. The central question, he argued, is whether the state may halt an economic activity once experience shows it harms fundamental rights, and his answer was that the state can and must act. His office's position is that the betting framework set by laws 13.756/2018 and 14.790/2023 became materially unconstitutional through insufficient protection of public health, dignity and the family.

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