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Nigeria’s president rejects bill to centralise gambling regulation

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Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rejected the Central Gaming Bill in December, saying it would conflict with a 2024 Supreme Court judgment that gambling regulation belongs at state level. Logifuture CMO Ben Cove said the regulatory uncertainty concerns the company’s legal team, but Bet9ja remains licensed in states offering licences and its online operations have not been compromised.

The unresolved division between state and federal authority affects licensing certainty for suppliers and operators in Nigeria.

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LOGiCO president says crypto betting needs traceable payments and regulation

Moreno Marasco, president of Italian online gambling concessionaires’ association LOGiCO, discussed cryptocurrency payments at SiGMA World 2026. He said closer integration with gambling could be possible if transactions were traceable, and described a recent ADM measure as potentially allowing greater scope for it.

Moreno Marasco, who heads LOGiCO, the association of online gambling concessionaires, used his SiGMA World 2026 panel appearance to examine how traceable cryptocurrency payments are, and whether crypto and gambling can be more closely integrated in light of a recent ADM measure. He spoke on the panel “Crypto Asset, piattaforme di prediction: una scommessa dentro la scommessa?”, opening with a comparison between land-based and remote gambling.

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