The National Lottery Regulatory Commission is set to introduce a central monitoring system that would ensure that all earnings due to government on lottery are collected with precision.
Its Director-General, Mr Lanre Gbajabiamila, said in a statement issued by Magnus Ekechukwu, its spokesman, that the strategy would ensure that all earnings due to government on lottery were collected with precision.
Gbajabiamila in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday explained that with all the measures being put in place by the commission, lottery would soon be contributing significantly to the federal treasury, as it is being done in advanced countries like America, United Kingdom and Spain.
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The lottery commission boss affirmed that both the management and staff members of the commission are being prepped with training and enhanced welfare package for effective take off of the novel system.
The director general assured Nigerians that in addition to the recently approved peculiar allowance for members of staff of the commission, the enhanced salary structure permitted for them since 2015 would become implementable after the realisation of the new monitoring system, as the commission would then have sufficient funds to meet its obligations.
Gbajabiamila also hinted that work had reached an advanced stage on the establishment of an indigenous National Game for all the benefits of higher revenues for the government, greater dividends for stakers and profound growth in the industry generally.
“With the arrangements being put in place, lottery will soon be contributing significantly to the federal treasury as it has done in countries like America, the United Kingdom, and Spain,’’ Gbajabiamila was quoted as saying.
He said management and staff members were already trained for a successful outcome of the new plan. He said arrangements had also reached advanced stage to establish an indigenous National Game with all the benefits of higher revenues for government.
He assured that the game would provide greater dividends for players and profound growth for the industry generally.
“We have remained tirelessly ingenious in engendering improved revenue earnings and entrenching a better lottery business in all ramifications,’’ he stressed.
