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To be the foremost organization fostering responsible gaming in Africa.
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To safeguard wellbeing by preventing gambling harm, supporting recovery, and shaping policies and practices that make gaming safer for all.
Research
ANTI-UNDERAGE GAMBLING CAMPAIGN IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ALIMOSHO, LAGOS STATE
This study provides empirical evidence on the prevalence, drivers, and risk factors associated with adolescent gambling. Despite strong legal prohibitions against gambling for individuals under 18, enforcement gaps, community norms, peer pressure, and advertising exposure continue to enable widespread participation among minors. Findings from this research offer relevant insights to guide regulatory reforms, strengthen enforcement mechanisms, and inform the development of school- and community-level prevention programs across Lagos State.
Daily Sports Betting and Gambling Harm in Ibadan
A comprehensive study investigating whether daily sports betting increases the likelihood of experiencing gambling harm among participants in Ibadan, Nigeria. This research provides critical insights into betting patterns, harm indicators, and risk levels, revealing that daily bettors are 3.99 times more likely to experience severe gambling-related harm, with nearly 49% of bettors classified as high-risk.
Daily vs. Non-Daily Bettors Comparison
Social Impact of Gambling in Nigeria
Gambling is becoming increasingly popular among young people driven by the introduction of new gaming products and technology integration (Uzobo et al. 2023; Adebisi et al. 2020). However, individuals grappling with gambling problems face heightened exposure to violence and abuse (Chukwu, 2023). Gambling, broadly defined as the act of wagering money or valuable items on an uncertain outcome in the pursuit of additional financial gains and/or material possessions (Jole et al. 2022; Ayandele et al. 2019; Williams et al. 2017), has experienced rapid industry expansion.
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Channelization as Player Protection: Why Keeping Gambling Regulated Matters for Harm Reduction in Nigeria and Africa
Debates about gambling regulation in Nigeria and across Africa are increasingly framed as moral or political choices rather than public-health and systems questions. Policymakers are often presented with a stark binary: permit gambling and accept harm, or restrict and ban gambling in order to protect players. While intuitively appealing, this framing obscures a more consequential issue: where gambling activity takes place matters far more for harm outcomes than whether gambling exists at all.
In rapidly digitizing African markets, gambling demand has proven resilient to prohibition. What changes under restrictive regimes is not the existence of gambling, but its location. When gambling activity is pushed outside regulated systems, it does not disappear; it becomes harder to observe, harder to regulate, and more harmful to those who continue to participate. We advance the argument that channelization, understood as the deliberate containment of gambling activity within regulated and enforceable systems, is one of the most important player protection tools available to African regulators.
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