Nigeria Supreme Court schedules lottery regulation dispute hearing for March 2024

Nigeria’s Supreme Court scheduled a 13 March 2024 hearing in a 2008 dispute over authority to regulate gaming and lotteries, reportedly brought by the Lagos State attorney general against the federal government. A seven-justice panel set the date and added 34 state attorneys general to the defendants in November 2022. The plaintiffs are asking the court to rule that the National Assembly lacks exclusive legislative authority over lotteries.