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Sports betting is not illegal in my country. According to some key gambling and betting statistics^1,2:

• There are over 60 million active gamblers.
• $2 billion is spent on gambling everyday
• 53% of people in my country bet at least once per day. Our population is around 200 million people.
• There are 14 million bet stakes and payments that are made over the internet every day
• and others

We are actually a gambling nation and the market is highly profitable. I wonder why despite these statistics, yet some sport betting and casino sites haven't taken advantage of it. As I conducted my research, I noticed that some casinos don't offer or no longer offers their services to people in my country. There are other countries with similar situation too. And it begs the question: why the reluctance? Such hesitation seems out of place in a country where gambling is legal.

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1 https://www.betensured.com/blog/top-10-nigeria-gambling-statistics/
2 https://www.noi-polls.com/post/gambling-and-betting-poll-2019

It depends on the provider I guess, some providers don't allow members from a few countries to take part in betting and that's why they haven't allowed sports betting in your country. You may try different casinos or different providers to see if they also don't allow sports betting in your country or they allow it. If all casinos and most providers don't allow sports betting in your country then something might be stopping them to disallow it.

The question now is “what?” What exactly is stopping them from providing their service?

From what I know there’s no law in Nigeria that prohibits gambling so I don’t see any reason why a gambling site would prevent Nigerians from accessing their site. I have encountered this issue several times, even in some site that I just want to try it so that I’d have an idea of how they operate - the most recent one was “nitrobetting”, I know I have visited that site several times to read some of their articles they drop concerning bets and all of a sudden I’m being prevented from accessing the site. It just doesn’t make any sense to me.

I think that is a government decision on taxing which can bring such results as where I live now despite a small number of habitants compared to your country I have seen here them to be almost 100% gamblers or in high favor of gambling.The government took a massive campaign of banning every casino except the big one first,then the other two bigs after that,they are the only ones operating now and generate much more profit to the state as everyone goes there to play.So maybe some casinos which don't offer you sport betting maybe they are not happy with government taxes.

Perhaps the problem is that in some countries there are certain laws and regulations that do not suit some casinos, which is why they do not want or cannot legally perform their activities in them. If a country is extremely focused on online gambling, as the OP says, it would not make sense for an online casino to refuse to provide its services in such a country and give up a significant profit.

Obviously, there is some kind of obstacle that they can't/don't want to cross, and the only way is to try to contact these online casinos and ask them an official question.

Yeah, the gaming providers decides which region is eligible to play their games. It's not just about the statistics, some highly reputable countries with such statistics are restricted as well. The gaming providers have their reasons for that, which I'm not sure of, have not read much on that. But looking deep in the casino's Terms and Conditions you'd see a list of restricted countries that can't participate in games provided by some specific software providers. It's just as simple as going to another casino where Nigeria is accepted and enjoy your games. Additionally, the government of the country can influence the reason why the country is restricted. Not every government allow all games to be played by their country people. Despite having a rule that legalizes gambling.

Because Nigeria has its own licensing scheme and I guess certain casinos would rather block Nigerians completely rather than being sanctioned or asked to pay fines. Maybe in future they could consider having a legitimate presence in the country and for that to ever happen they need a clean record. Otherwise it would ruin their brand and make it unusable in the local market.

But the one to blame here are not the individual casinos that are blocking Nigerian IP addresses. It's the politicians that hand out licenses to casinos without much thought. Think about it, would you say that every locally licensed casino is better than the ones advertised here? Most probably no. And yet what do we see happening? A few rich people in each country start offshores and buy a casino license to just milk the locals. Profits end up untaxed and funneled through offshore accounts mostly. This process only enriches the politicians and makes access available only to some sub-par casinos that usually aren't even provably fair.

It could be a license issue that they can't afford to pay. Bigger market probably demand bigger lincense fee because the potential income is higher or it could be that the competition is really stiff that they feel they are spending more than they could potentially earn. Big casinos or sportsbook will probably venture on that as they are more liquid so they could expand more.

Hope you are not using an IP address with US location? Or the location of the country that the gambling site restricted?

It is good to also read the restricted countries on the gambling site ToS.

I have noticed that you will see some countries that are accepted on a gambling site but not accept on another gambling site. This is because of the gambling regulations the country has that the gambling site do not want to abide to.

You aren't following up, it is becoming a big concern to the government about how billions of naira is going into gambling in Nigeria, I heard it myself and they promise to make it stop, someway or somehow, they never said.

Maybe they will start doing the same shit they do with Binance exchange who knows? If the government of the country reaches out to the popular online gambling platform to not render their services to Nigerians or risk facing the law do you think that it won't work? It will work bro.


The government is worried, too many citizens of Nigeria are into gambling and most of them are losing tons of money to those gambling companies, every casinos online and offline want to make money, they don't have any reasons not to provide their services to any country unless there is a issue.

You should already know the answer.


Gambling is a sin for Muslim, how you can expect a country that dominated by people who're against gambling will legalize gambling? even they legalize it, they only allow foreigners to gamble and forbid local people to gamble.

People will still gamble even though they live in a restricted countries, just like the statistic you provided above. Why the police didn't catch every people who gamble on your country? because it's time consuming and their jail can't handle 50% of the population, the country will broke too due to giving free money for prisoners and less workers.

Probably true. They were sanctioning Binance off $10B recently which is too preposterous to begin with. Betting platform asking for License in their country might also have to pay a large sum for it.

But I don't think they need a betting platform from other countries now, Nigeria has its own. What they need is more users from other countries to play on their platforms. The countries like Soccer, if the promote the sport widely which the whole world also likes Soccer, they could extract more money from the outside.

Most of the time this is due to the license issue. Maybe your government ask a different terms which license provider can’t meet on their side that’s why some casino choose not to go further even though there’s a good market in your country.

We can use USA as an example, There’s a lot of gamblers in there while gambling is allowed but they have their own gambling regulator that doesn’t allowed foreign license to operate in their country.

Probably the probably the problem relies on your country regulations and requirements for foreign casino operators.

Because the foreign/local online casino must obtain a license from the Nigeria gaming commission before they are able to operating in Nigeria.
and: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_Nigeria

Perhaps that is a reason why some of the casino providers dont want to apply/extend a license there, because live casino games, original games and maybe slots too are considered illegal there.

He stated that it's not illegal in his country, so why would you assume that because majority of the popular are Muslim it's likely attributed to that. They can still serve the 45.9 percent which are Christians and maybe gambling is also a sin but it's strictly implemented unlike in other religions.

If there's an opportunity to make money, the operators will try to find a way to run their business, maybe some have succeed because they have enough capital or they see it as a big opportunity, while others would choose to run their casino in other countries. Besides, online casinos can cater volume of people from different countries, so they'll not be run out of customers.

Let your government in Nigeria be deceiving you. What proof do they have? Most Nigerians are using local gambling sites. You can even see that on this forum as some of Nigerian posters will win betting and post the image they snapped on the gambling site here. You will see that it is their local gambling site that they are using most.

 With what you've specified, I think a lot of gambling companies would want to offer services from bettors in that region but their are many things that would be hindering them, despite the population and the amount spent on gambling, for instance they might not fall in line with the taxation policy of your government that alone hinders a lot of companies from doing business in many countries.

 Secondly is the regulation or fines form your country doesn't align with that of the company then they won't want to invest or do business in such country. But I believe there are many betting companies operating in Nigeria and I'm aware that the competition is very though over there among different betting companies but one of the most outstanding betting company over there is sporty bet.

If you are referring to sports providers outside your country then I guess there's a restriction for them, assuming. But if it is with providers inside your country, then one guess of mine is that competition is already big and they might probably be focusing on other industries. Makes sense right? As you've mentioned, there are no tight and clear restrictions for gambling providers then I assume that there is a large number of online gambling platforms already which makes it hard for new ones to have a spotlight or first ones to maintain their spots. Also to the same extent, what's the sense looking for non existing platforms if there are ones which are present? Not to be offensive but am I not right on this?
Also the idea of not being illegal is different from being supported by governments of course. This concerns requirements and things to comply for providers to run their platforms, which I think something to be considered as well on this discussion.

That's not a surprising thing actually, because there are several things that underlie it, for example in slot games it will depend on the slot provider in a particular country, it is available but it may not be in your country and maybe for sports betting it is a casino licensing factor although I'm not really sure about this.
The opposite happens in my country, I don't know for sure how many millions of people use online casinos, but gambling in my country is illegal, but many online casinos do not include my country as a prohibited list, and the government only takes precautions by blocking them through internet provider services.

I am not an expert on the matter of how gambling is supposed to work in other countries like Nigeria. But if I had to guess, I would say some providers and online casinos simply feel more comfortable with keeping their opperations within specific jurisdictions and away from other jurisdictions.
It could be about the perception the international community has over the country in question and it's government, it could be also about how international regulations could impact on the casino if they decided to provide their services to the people of that country.

By the way, I knew there were many gamblers in Nigeria. But having such a huge percentage of people who gambles also in such an often manner is something I had not heard about before. Not doubt about Nigeria being a country of gamblers... I wonder how it could possibly affect the social development of people, to be so immersed in gambling.

Sportsbetting may not be available in their country, just like what you mentioned here about slots. Slot providers have their jurisdiction where they can be played, hence, some providers are restricting countries. Because why would sportsbetting be not available if your government has nothing against with it? That's a very simple logic to think about.


We don't know exactly the protocol of his country towards sportsbetting. However, there's a valid reason behind it for sure. Because if there's no one hindering it, why would they are not offering the services of sportsbetting? Just check your local protocols towards online sportsbetting and you may understand such action.

Every business has a scope and jurisdiction it is projected to operate. Some of these casinos may want to have a presence in your country. Maybe they might expand later to Nigeria but they might now have such plans. Some casinos might not also have the financial capacity to cover your country, so they are restricted to a few countries.

Another reason may be regulation and gambling laws. In some countries, the process of registering a casino is too cumbersome. Operators might even have to give bribes to government officials to secure licenses. We also have some casinos that localize the games they have so they will have to cover areas where the games they offer are popular.

The reasons for that is simple: the gamble regulatory policy may not be in line with what the casino providers might be watching out for as part of their objectives for their business.

Another thing is that, some casinos might out of owners personal judgement want to  stay off from operating in certain continent so it may not be just your country alone for some casino's the restriction could go continental.

Lastly, some casino's might have a sister gambling site or casino already existing in your country and as a result they don't want to double there to avoid double taxation and also not to be a competitor with it's sister site in that same country.

Gambling has become a real problem for most people, where many people are trapped in irresponsible gambling activities, and they no longer care about the lives of themselves and their families, because the most important thing for them is how they can earn money and gamble at any time. the day.

In the beginning, some people thought that gambling was an escape to find fun, to relieve fatigue from all the problems they were experiencing or to just look for a little profit. However, without them realizing it, because they do not manage their gambling activities well, this gambling becomes a very detrimental activity, which not only affects their financial situation but also disrupts their life balance. Because they feel addicted to gambling, this activity becomes their main priority despite their other duties and responsibilities.

In overcoming this problem, the government's role is very important, the government must take concrete steps, if necessary the government creates a certain institution to limit the activities of land-based casinos and online casinos. Apart from that, the government must also take a direct approach to the community.

There is an answer a poster give above made me wonder why they can't adhered to our country regulations. Why?
Most casino/gambling site providers goes with the regulations that seems very easily for them comply, if what they are being tasked on is much or seems too hard for them where they can't comply they will have restricted operation from those country because as I know too well that our country is a gambling nation and this has been helping the unemployment individuals in the country, where most of the young teenage and youths involved themselves in so much gambling.

This question of why, has numerous responses and one of which is the marketing strategy of the online gambling website.

The statistics are fantastic but them Nigeria is not the only country with that statistics. There are other other regions that fits into the marketing strategy of the casino and that it why they may ignore your country and offer their services to people in other regions.

In as much as the statistics looks great, after a PnL analysis, the casino decides that the market their is over saturated and they cannot compete therefore there is no need to waste their resources there because the growth and profitability margin is insignificant. Hence they leave or turn their attention towards more lucrative regions.

We all know that gambling and casino laws are mostly always in favour of the house rather than the individuals who use them, and it's very true that in most countries, gambling can be a very important part of the economy and that is why it's almost impossible for the government to enact laws that'll completely prohibit people from gambling, even after being aware of the negative impact of gambling to the individuals at large.

Gambling can indeed create employment opportunities for some young people and that's pretty much an advantage, but we should also consider the dangerous side, being the addictive part of gambling. Gambling addiction can be a very serious danger, both to the young, as well as the old and it can also have serious consequences too.

If you look very well in our environment today, teenagers and youths are more prone to getting addicted which can easily result to depression, unnecessary debt and other things.

That's a very good answer that covers the entirety of the OP's question.
Casinos have to operate under guidelines of their licenses and nobody is going to look at statistics that say how many people in that country gamble. It doesn't matter to a clerk that issues the license. Most likely it's due to internal regulations of a country that other countries (license issuers) don't want to violate, or there's a problem with unstable currency/government or scams that aren't addressed by local enforcement agencies and the license issuers just don't want to deal with potential loss by a player/investor as they'd have to handle complaints.

More than 50% people are betting it's really huge population for a country who are involved with playing gambling. And also there is no restriction on gambling I haven't also not got the matter why this giant don't looking forward to your country.
But the first reason that comes to my mind is that maybe their license companies have restricted your country. And this may be the biggest reason. 
Also secondly another reason I want to mention is do you know what percentage vat your government charges on sports gambling? And if this VAT is excessive, maybe because of this, those gambling companies have restricted it in your country.
Anyway if you want there are a large amount of casinos are still for you why you are worry about it. Have you try anytime duelbits.com you can try it out if it is not restricted in your country .

I am also aware of this - but all they did was talk no action was taken against any gambling site.

Assuming they did, we all know the first site that they would have attacked which is "sporty bet" because that's where majority of Nigerians do their Bettings and even those are just entering the gambling industry usually start with sporty bet before they proceeds to other platforms, but since it's still active then it means nothing has happened yet - those site that are currently blocking Nigerians from accessing their site are doing based on their own reason not based on the government's news.

If looking or judging by the addictive phases then we should be held responsible for not gambling responsibly, and I also understood that in all gambling site they always have this warning (+18) meaning anyone who is not up-to the age bracket shouldn't go gamble. The reason for this is, emotion can be controlled which including; Responsible gambling, limiting oneself and also being able to make personal decisions towards risk management. The amount to be used, when to gamble, where to gamble, and gambling limits any one who can't control all this shouldn't gamble or even go closed to the gambling site.

Maybe you should also consider the statistic of the numbers of the newly introduced gambling platforms on a daily basis, the numbers of active gamblers to that of the inactive each day if there is increase on both or decrease, we should henceforth know that we cannot continue to have the same kind of gambling experience over time with the same statistical data, things changes and varies over time, operating a casino demands money to fund the establishment for one, how many are experienced and willing to afford starting one.

Well, is the casino who decides the rules, and they can block any country they want as part of their policy. Usually, this kind of limitation comes from the license provider, but the casino can decide if to block any other country that isn't on the license list.

If sports gambling is legit in your country then stop fighting with the casinos who don't allow it and just find the right providers, that should be the easy way to deal with this.

If, unfortunately, they no longer offer such service to customers living in your country, that means they have been offering the service before they actually stopped, probably due to some circumstances that were not disclosed. Before a casino decides to stop their service in a country, it means something might have caused it, which is why they may not want to disclose the problem to their customers. @OP, I am not doubting that you are from a gambling nation like you said, but the fact that a casino was earlier offering a service in your country before they stopped means that they already knew the level of profit that they were getting from the country, but something must have caused them to stop at will or not. 

Yes this is likely the reason why. A lot of gambling platforms today offer both online sports betting and casino games so it makes little sense to even bother going all the trouble of registering in a country where their services is limited.

Unlike the people who place the bets on their sites, the owners of these massive gambling companies will know the limits of their competence and the risks involved. Take America for instance, they are starting to open up the sports betting market more and more, however in the past many European based operators would avoid American players like the plague because it was illegal. American enforcement agencies have taken, often overzealous, actions against overseas companies who gave the slightest hint they were targeting US players in the past. Not only that, it is a very litigious market and as sports betting is still relatively new, who knows it it might be repealed and the huge promotional money would end up wasted. Some markets are simply not worth the hassle, at least not at first - let other people make the mistakes or set the ground work so you can learn from them.

Can probably be due to regional laws or religion itself, who knows? Idk how much influence religion has in Nigeria but if that was the major factor, then I reckon there's only a specific number of casinos that they themselves specifically allowed to sell their services in the country. If it was regional, same thing maybe, they just allowed a specific number of casinos instead of allowing everything all at once. Might be because they want to better regulate it, or just that the casinos paid the country so as to prevent competition.

Can also include that some providers aren't allowed in the country. And with casinos sometimes having said providers as their key entertainment, they can't exactly compete with existing ones or fully be able to sell their services to the country with those kinds of limitations.

There are many factors that can cause reluctance. Most at times the reason behind reluctancy is bankruptcy. When a gambling site has proposed a budget of certain amount for the gambling business and some folks swift all the money in just twinkle of an eye, then they see no need to continue. Sometimes the cause of reluctancy is poor management. Just like any other business which people may tend to manage and succeed or lose, whenever there  is more progress there is a tendency of proceeding but when there is no progress, there comes unseriousness and the spirit of reluctancy.

Some of the outside-based gambling platforms are not finding the amended Nigerian gambling policies friendly, which I believe is a good enough reason for most of them to stay out of the Nigerian market in order to be on the safer side rather than operating illegally or having licences for one particular thing and offering service for another. 
 
As a gambling platform owner, if you want to register in the country, you need to  be on what service you want to be providing,  (https://iclg.com/practice-areas/gambling-laws-and-regulations/nigeria/ampspecific)  and each of the services has different licences that you need to acquire separately, which I also assumed they had to pay separately for with other terms to meet.

I've always seen those restrictions appear from sites based in the US. Those gambling sites probably don't want to get involved in something that could cause unnecessary problems for them in the future, and they might need to go through other procedures before they accept users from a specific country. It's probably why we sometimes see sportsbooks and casinos try to create another copy of their site, but it's only made for those restricted countries.

I only see two reasons why and it will always fall down to the government.
Have you checked what is the government contract when an online gambling site registers your country? I bet there's a big statement there that would make a business like them step back and just avoid your country.

I don't see it because of your law using your statement about the amount spent on gambling every day. So it's either what I said in the first one or, they are hesitating because there are too many registered online gambling sites in your country. If the competition is way too high, even a first-time businessman will avoid it. I mean, if I will be paying taxes and then see no customers, that will be a waste and worse if the contract will be long term which means more wasted money.

Well, we all know that not all gambling sites are in the same country only, or in short there are a lot of gambling sites that is made from different people or company from all over the world so there are many reasons why some gambling sites can't reach their services in some countries, maybe those countries has a strict rule and compliance when it comes to operation of gambling sites in their domain or maybe the country itself banned a certain gambling sites for also different reasons, in this days gambling or online gambling are becoming more a trend but also let's be cautious because not all of the gambling sites are safe, remember of there's a trend there will be scammers or someone that has malicious intents to take advantage of the popularity and trend. Maybe that's the primary reason why some gambling sites might be violating rules or not following the rules that should be followed.

What you should know is that every gambling site want to make profit and none of them will shut themselves out of a region that will potentially bring them gain for no reason. I know that depending on the niche of the gambling site, there are countries where certain type of Gambling isn't all that popular and trying to bring your marketing attention to such region might not yield the needed result and so it's possible they will just have to stick with what's working for them and might not even notice that certain region are out of there reach.

Like in my region, what's very popular is sports gambling and it's deficult not to see different sports gambling site investing into promoting there gambling site in our region but for some casinos that's aren't all that popular here, maybe some might be willing to take the risk and look out for prospective users but some might just take outside of there plan and focused more on areas they are sure will be profitable. But then, it's stand in the hands of the gambling owners to determine the region to market there services and if as a gambling you're interested to gamble with a particular gambling site that isn't working in your region, you can make use of the VPN to accessing those site and with crypto gambling becoming increasingly popular, there is no point of being concerned as you can easily receive your win either in BTC or through any other decentralized payment medium.

The problem should be from Nigeria government, maybe their law and regulation does not go in a way that it fits in with what the casino have in mind, and that might make them not to operate in such country. Casinos are for business, and any country that their regulation does not suit with the casino will likely not provide their service.

However, that should not be any problem, as there are so many casinos in Nigeria that are operating and their service is similar to sportbetting, so you can  atch your fun in those casinos.

One or two users already gave the answer which is - it depends on the providers and it's license. Some license do not allow to operate in certain region and in that case they block the country IP. Nothing stops you to use a VPN though as long as you are not risking large amount.

This is probably the reason. At least in my country, Greece, gambling is perfectly legal; "centralized" casinos (not sure if that's the right term) even go ahead and deduct the income tax when you withdraw any amount over €100. The majority of cryptocurrency casinos I've noticed are banned, you're prompted to a government website that also has a listed with all banned casinos and services. I'm guessing it's firstly due to their licenses, which aren't supposedly recognized as established casinos, and secondly, and most importantly, because they cannot monitor them to deduct any income taxation. I'm using Cloudflare DNS to access those websites and haven't come across any issues. I'll never resort to using any kind of casino that automatically claims a part of my winnings.

Even if gambling is legal in your country doesn't mean that they can freely open up a gambling site and offer it to your people. If I am not mistaken they need to follow their game providers terms and I think to legally operate in your country there's a lot of steps needed and of course the license and all. So even if it's a big market, it's not that easy and may take a lot of money to process legal fees.

By the way OP, which country are you from? it seems that gambling is really popular there, are there a lot of online gambling site that allows you to play there or are you using crypto gambling sites?

Maybe the casino doesn't thinks that your people is a potential gamblers like the other people from the other nations. Many reasons why the casino doesn't offers their services to people in your country. If you wants to knows, you can asks to every casino you knows so you can knows the real reasons from them. But I think if that is an online casino, they will not differentiate their customers whether their customers from different countries. But the casino will have their lists of the customer from all countries so they will focus to their big lists of the customers on every countries regarding to gives their services. They will also have their lists that shows from where their customers comes from and will knows from which countries from the most of their customers. They will focus on that lists on gives their services and gives promotions to their customers. The right answers will comes from the casino if you want to asks them. We can just guess of what will be their reason.

Even if it is legal on some countries, there are strict laws to be followed. And so with some gaming providers, their licenses are not enough to quality to offer their games in even in a legal countries. In short, regulation is still the problems for some casinos and providers and the licenses they get to operate. And with that, it doesn't mean that the countries allowed gambling that anyone can go and offer their casinos to that country country specially online. In traditional based casino's it might be different, they could legally operated as long as they are going to pay huge taxes to the government and then operate under the regulations on the local regulators.

Actually, I had not thought about it. But the way taxes are handled in a country could be a major factor on why some casinos decide to engage in some national markets while staying away from others.
They need to put on a scale whether it is worth it for them to engage in a national gambling market and also keep in consideration how the taxation works in the same market.
For example, taxation laws in the United States are ones which are considered to be very tight, probably one of the tightest on the planet, but casinos still choose those offer their services in that jurisdiction because of the huge amount of potential clients/gamblers who are found in such country.
Perhaps, we are seeing some cases in which the laws and regulations concerning to taxation are very complex or difficult for a business like an online casino to comply with, in comparison to the size or profitability of the market/jurisdiction. I don't know anything about the taxation laws in Nigeria, so this could be more about politics instead or economics.

Some countries are led by not only their laws but also by their morals and ethics. Especially when it comes to religions, not all groups are on board with gambling as a form of entertainment and some people still think it is evil and destroys lives. For this reason, casinos always have a difficult time moving into new places and establishing themselves in new cultures.

Many countries have a very stricter rule that makes gamble and their site very difficult for few people to cope with. In my country there are many offline gamble and online gambling site and much of them are making money because the rules and the power behind them is from the government so they are not having any much challenges when it comes to gamble. In most countries gambling is not permitted like Colombia, North Korea, Japan that doesn't permits gamble, I belives that there are many people that gamble online while gamble is not legalized in there country.

No businessman will see a large market like the OP's country and not want to enter into such market. Many factors might be restricting a casino or gambling company from entering into such a market, thereby  restricting the citizens of such countries from gambling with them. Aside from the fact that the gambling company might be having difficulties in acquiring licenses from the country they intend to enter or they do not meet the licensing requirements and cases of unfavourable tax conditions from the host country, a gambling country can restrict members of a particular country from gambling with them if there have be countless cases in the past where members of the affected country have been involved in gambling violations and other illegal tricks with the said gambling company. It is only fair to restrict them since they will be doing the company no good.

The restrictions can be very annoying because they would make plenty of money as a result of accepting gamblers from your region since you think there are so many gamblers from your region that would like to bet and make money from themselves but the restrictions from casinos not accepting gamblers and users from such region is something one need to think about and try to avoid.

There may be so many reasons why they decided to restrict gamblers from such regions and one of the reasons might be from the government not giving permit to gambling companies to operate. Sometimes, another problem might be because of too much taxation on companies.

This may be true in other place but not in my country because the government taxes with access to online casinos and sports bookies.

An email has been sent to them. I'll be waiting for their reply. I'll most likely share it in the thread.


This is not correct. Politicians are not in charge of handing out licenses rather the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC). It has a proper application guide to follow to obtain a license. Here. (https://nlrc-gov.ng/remote-gaming-description/)

I doubt this the fee for a five year period is $100,000.00 (https://nlrc-gov.ng/remote-gaming-description/). Considering the stats already presented in the OP, they can recover it in less than 12 months.

There are several reasons:
It may be...

• the casino or the game provider/supplier is not up to date with the rules in your country;
• that they have suffered some sanction from your government and are banned/prohibited from operating in your country for breaking some law;
• that the taxes paid in your country are very high and it is not profitable for them to offer these bets in your country;
• that they have some prejudice and simply don't allow it because they don't really want to.

Anyway, I believe that the only way for you to get a conclusive answer, if you really want to know why, is to ask them through the customer service/support channel.

I've suffered from this myself, but luckily there are several other sites that allow me to play in the main sports categories without any restrictions, so I simply look for them.

This has happened to me a few times, it's funny and it was with new and suspicious casinos. I couldn't even read the TOS of these new casinos because as soon as I clicked on the casino link a warning appeared that my country was on the list of countries banned by the casino. I was wondering what kind of license the casino had that told it to put my country on the list of prohibited countries. In my country, gambling has always been legal and encouraged by the government of my country. In my country we have many physical casinos, we have online casinos, on every street in my country there are slot machines, sports agents and agents who sell lottery tickets and my country is democratic, there is no war and it is not on the list of sanctioned countries

so in my head it didn't make any sense to see that warning that I was seeing at that new casino, but since I couldn't even see the casino's TOS, I couldn't even see if it had a license or not, so all I did was ignore the casino . When I researched the casino I saw many accusations of scams. We soon assumed that the scammer probably just added many countries randomly to the list of blocked countries and then programmed it so that people from those countries would not be able to access the casino.

I heard before that each license has their own rule and this can include country restrictions. Some casinos are also like a franchise and maybe the ones you have in our country before have experienced a financial problem for them to close down. I already saw a casino like this.

At first I wonder on why I can't access them anymore but they are still accessible on other language with a different domain extension. Interesting statistics you got there BTW. I thought online gambling is now dominating but there is only 14 million bets made on it and that means the rest are still made offline. Woah. You are not even from a gambling capital country but you live in Nigeria according to your link, though I think it's one of the underdeveloped countries, so that should explain it all.

Well I don't know what the rules are here in Nigeria but I think am quite certain that even if they have some regulations I believe it's probably casino friendly and that's the major reason why almost all casino site are working really fine here in Nigeria. Like the Op said Nigeria is one of the biggest market when it comes to the gambling industry and any casino that prohibits is probably losing alot.

Sports betting can be legal in your country, but it doesn't mean any platforms can operate there, as there are still regulations and requirements made by your local government in order to allow those platforms to operate there legally, including the virtual services. Maybe these websites you are attempting to access don't fulfill the requirements of your government, so they decided to not operate there to avoid legal issues. Each country is unique on their laws and regulations, so it's hard for a foreigner person to say why exactly it's happening there. Moreover, each gambling service is also unique on their terms and conditions, besides licenses. And some of those licenses may enter in conflict with local regulations from some countries.

If I were you, I wouldn't bother too much about not being able to access determined gambling portals. There are many of them for you to choose, deposit and play. So go for the ones which are working in your place, and forget about the ones unavailable. They don't worth the risks and headaches you might have in order to force an access to their services...

In the Philippines, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) estimates that the gambling industry will generate $5.9 billion as revenue for the year 2024.


From this fact alone, you can see that the gambling industry has a significant effect in providing revenue for the government. In return, these funds would be use in order to create infrastructures, job opportunities, and other relevant services that will inure to the benefit of the people in the country.

While gambling establishments are heavily regulated, one cannot deny the fact that it is responsible for bringing the highest revenue in the country; that is the reason on why the Philippines is somehow lenient when it comes to gambling laws and its execution/implementation.

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1 https://agbrief.com/news/philippines/24/03/2024/pagcor-expecting-2024-ggr-to-grow-18-y-on-y/

Perhaps you're seeing this as a business opportunity and not as a problem that perhaps your government is actively working to thwart and solve. Remember that gambling as a business, even if government-sanctioned only benefits one party, and most often than not they would make sure to keep that disparity in the name of profit.

The fact alone that more than half of your country's population's gambling's a little alarming to me. You're literally talking about a good amount of people gambling their whole paychecks away and with little to no gains from it too. Like it would've made sense if the games they play the most are on the side of those that are easier to win but as it stands I'm looking at people that are just too addicted to quit. 

I agree with the Op that gambling is highly accepted in the country and in my locality gamblers even publicly saying that without gambling most of them would have join "street works" like, arm robbery, snatching of people belongings and stealing on the streets but because of gambling, those boys are always engaged in the game halls playing games from morning till evening. Normally gambling is not a bad thing but person uses the opportunity to abused it. And that is why some the casino providers restrict those countries are abusing the industry with illegal activities.

There's something about those licenses, that seems very strange to me. It depends from country to country, but each of us has that experience, we can visit some casinos while others we can't. We can play some providers freely in one casino, but the same providers are forbidden to us in another casino.

I can't say that I noticed that some rules apply the same to everyone, each casino has its license and its own rules. The only way to know what and where is valid is to try the casino and read the ToS (which I don't particularly like)... I rely on the casino itself to notify me if my country is on the banned list.