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January 2026 did not arrive with a single explosive headline for Nigeria’s gambling industry.   Instead, it ushered in something arguably more significant: a series of regulatory clarifications and compliance pressures that began to reshape how operators structure payments, licensing, technology contracts and player protection tools.   The month’s developments can be examined without sensationalism or political framing. Five themes defined the shift: the treatment of VAT on s

Ben Cove, chief marketing officer of Logifuture, has urged policymakers to adopt a pragmatic approach as tensions continue between state and federal gambling authorities in Nigeria. The country’s regulatory trajectory remains unsettled amid ongoing jurisdictional disputes between different layers of government. In December, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rejected the proposed Central Gaming Bill, legislation that would have shifted oversight of the gambling sector to a

Nigeria has embarked on a sweeping overhaul of how digital assets are monitored, embedding national identification numbers directly into crypto systems to strip away the anonymity that once protected bad actors. The push arrives alongside the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025, which compels every virtual-asset transaction to be tied to a verified, real-world identity. By synchronizing its domestic rules with the global crypto-asset reporting framework, the government intend