Betwinner and Bet24Hrs have secured sports betting licences form the National Lottery Regulatory Commission of Nigeria (NLRC).

Upon receiving the licence, Bet24Hrs managing director Roy Jiang thanked the Commission for its help throughout the process and pledged to contribute to the process and growth of Nigeria’s regulated gambling industry.

Olatunji Idowu, managing director of Betwinner, said that the operator was dedicated to being a trusted partner of the regulator. He said he was encouraged with the Commission’s ongoing efforts to clean up the industry and ensure all stakeholders supported good causes.

Lanre Gbajabiamila, director of NLRC, called on all operators currently serving Nigerian customers without a licence to apply for certification, warning those that failed to do so would “face the full wrath of the law.”

He also warned that licensees who failed to comply with regulations were liable to have the approval to operate revoked.

Ronald Karauri, CEO of SportPesa, has responded to a netizen who asked how soon the gaming company will return to the Kenyan market.

Karauri stated that many people had been asking him the same question but said there was no breakthrough yet.

“I have so many people asking this question. We did not get our license renewed in 2019. We submitted our application to BCLB some months ago and we are still waiting for feedback. If we do get our license renewed we shall let everyone know,” he said.

English Premier League team Everton announced that they will end their partnership agreement with SportPesa at the end of the 2019/20 football season.

“This has been a difficult decision but one that allows us to best deliver on our commercial plan and to grasp the new opportunities now open to us. The Club would like to thank SportPesa for all of the work that has been done together. Our partnership has seen our first team visit Africa on two occasions, as well as former players and Club staff take part in numerous activations in the region. This has allowed us to grow our own footprint in Africa and further strengthen our special relationship with the continent,” Everton said in a statement.

African emerging market has been in NSoft’s focus for quite some time. In order to better explore possibilities that African iGaming market offers, NSoft has expanded its business operation’s team with two more dedicated sales managers settled in SAR and Nigeria.

This strategic decision resulted in a better understanding of the African market specifics and subsequently led to penetration into two new markets: Ethiopia and Burundi.

NSoft’s sportsbook, ever-popular draw-based games as well as beautifully designed virtual games have found their way to the players of three betting operators, new customers of NSoft at African iGaming market. In addition to this, two more retail-based sports betting operators from Ethiopia are in the final stage of production of NSoft’s Pre-Match and Live MTS complemented with web platform to be used for tickets’ code generation.

“It is always exciting to enter new markets, new countries. You basically have no formula for it – one has to do all research on market, trends and all define legal issues prior to any serious negotiation with potential clients. Thus, we are pleased to have additional sales forces on site that can quickly get into the matter and to respond with ease to any request of existing or potential clients,” said Ivan Rozić, SVP Global Sales & Business Development at NSoft.

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