The NLA Board was appointed by the President, H.E.
John Agyekum Kufuor in accordance with Section 36 (2) of the National Lotto
Act, (Act722).
Under the new national lotto Act (Act 722) the board is the
only body empowered to conduct the business of lotteries in Ghana.
The Board
is charged with regulating, supervising and managing the national lotto game,
as well as ensuring the enforcement of laws relating to the national lotto in a
manner that would promote a “win-win” situation for all
stakeholders in the industry.
Under the new Act, the board is empowered to
license all lotto-marketing companies for the distribution and sale of coupons,
and for other purposes that it considered appropriate.
The authority is the
only body to issue coupons both manual and electronic for lotto.
The Act
states that no person shall import, sell, distribute or acquire for the purpose
of sale any foreign lotto coupon.
The board is under the Chairmanship of Mrs
Janet Opoku-Akyeapong, and has Mr. Kojo Andah, Director General of the National
Lottery Authority (NLA), Mr. Enoch Hemans Cobinah, Ministry of Finance, Mr.
Mumuni Adbulai Bawumia, Ministry of Interior, Ms. Cynthia Lamtey, Principal
State Attorney, Attorney Generals Department, Hon Doris Seidu, Chripone
Constituency, and Hon Kwadjo Opare Hammond, Member of Parliament as
members.
| News
2011 |
| December 1, 2011 |
NLRU Members Fear Imminent
Collapse of the Nation’s Lottery Industry |
| December 1, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Extends Deadline for Ending Manual Lotto Coupons |
| November 28, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Moves to Electronic Payment System to Pay Commissions |
| November 12, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Says Sale of Manual Coupon/Tickets to End December 15 |
| October 11, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Temporally Withdraws Two Lottery Products |
| September 11, 2011 |
Police Raid Illegal
Lottery Operators |
| September 7, 2011 |
Gaming Commission Vacates
NLA Premises |
| September 7, 2011 |
National Lotteries
Authority Refers Bank’s “Rush For Gold” promotion to
Gaming Commission for authorization |
| August 31, 2011 |
Government to Review
National Lotteries Operations |
| August 22, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority,
Telcos Battle Intensifies |
| August 19, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Wins Interim Injunction Against Vodafone |
| August 8, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Sues Vodafone and Seeks to Prevent Gaming Commission from Issuing Permits for
Games of Chance |
| August 5, 2011 |
Gaming Commission Rules
Vodafone’s “More Money” Promotion is Not a
Lottery |
| August 2, 2011 |
National Lotto Authority
Warns Financial Institutions Against Operating Illegal Lottery
Games |
| July 28, 2011 |
Gaming Commission Approves
New Vodafone SMS Game |
| July 25, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Corrects Some Misconceptions Concerning Its Portable Ticket Processing
Program |
| July 23, 2011 |
National Lotto Receivers
Association Refutes NLA Claims of Reaping a Windfall from Its business
operations |
| July 19, 2011 |
Lottery Authority Rewards
Businesses and Individuals with Help From Digicel |
| July 18, 2011 |
Lottery Strikers Threatened
with Loss of Selling Terminals if Impasse is Not Resolved |
| July 16, 2011 |
Lottery Unions Call for the
Management of the National Lottery Authority to be Replaced |
| July 11, 2011 |
Lottery Authority Yet to See
the Affect of National Strike Action on Its Operations |
| July 10, 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Appeals to Lotto Receivers to End Strike Over Reduction in
Commissions |
| July 5, 2011 |
National Lotteries Denies
Sponsoring NDC Congress |
| July 6, 2011 |
Lotto Receivers Begin
Nationwide Strike Over Reduction in Commissions |
| June 16, 2011 |
Court Refuses to Grant an
Application for Injunction Filed by the National Lotteries Authority Against
Trade Promotion |
| June 17, 2011 |
Nineteen Suspected Illegal
Lotto Operators Arrested |
| June 6, 2011 |
Lotto Receivers Union
Threaten to Withdraw Funding to National Lotteries Authority |
| May 17, 2011 |
High Court Restrains
Company From Promoting, Sponsoring, and Advertising Illegal Lottery Passing-Off
as a Trade Promotion |
| March 29, 2011 |
National Lottery
Authority Wins Case Against Mobile Operator |
| March 26 2011 |
National Lottery Authority
Announce Reduction in Retailer Commission |
| March 23, 2011 |
High Court Backs National
Lottery Authority Decision to Reduce Lotto Receivers’
Commission |
| March 15, 2011 |
National Lottery
Authority Sues Telecommunications Operator Over "Illegal
Lottery" |
| March 14, 2011 |
Court Orders National
Lotteries Authority to Pay 2009 Lotto Prize |
| February 23, 2011 |
Lotto Receivers Sue
National Lottery Authority |
| February 14, 2011 |
Lotto Sellers to Defy NLA
and Revert to Illegal Lotto Business
‘Banker-To-Banker’ |
| February 10, 2011 |
Lotto Receivers Begin
Nationwide Strike |
| February 9, 2011 |
Lotteries Donates Computers
to Fire Service |
| January 25, 2011 |
Unlicensed Lotto Operator
Fined for Using the National Lotteries Drawn Numbers for Illegal
Operations |
| January 24, 2011 |
Lotto Receivers Contemplate
Strike-Action Over Reduction in Commission |
| January 14, 2011 |
Lotto Sellers Threaten
Nationwide Strike Action |
Lotto Operators
Association Condemn Arrests and Prosecution of Members
ACCRA, Ghana (May 27, 2010) -- local news sources report the Ghana Lotto
Operators Association of Ghana (GLOA) on Thursday condemned unwarranted arrests
and prosecution of members by personnel of the Ghana Police
Service................Subscribers
Lotteries Office Gutted
By Fire
Accra, Ghana (April 18, 2010) – According to a
local website an office of the Department of National Lotteries in Accra has
been gutted by fire early Sunday morning...........Subscribers
Supreme Court Bans Private
Lotto Operators
ACCRA, Ghana (February 18, 20100 - The
operations of Ghana Private Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) has been banned,
the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled........................Subscribers
Call For Government to
Investigate Operations of National Lotteries Authority
GHANA, Africa (February 8, 2010) -- The National Lotto Receivers Union has
called on the Government to set up a committee to investigate the operations of
the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) and the Department of National
Lotteries (DNL)..............Subscribers
Public Accounts
Committee Praises National Lottery Authority
GHANA
(February 19, 2010) - The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has lauded the
Department of National Lotteries (DNL) for its sterling performance and urged
it to continue with its good work to raise more revenue for the
government.................Subscribers
Private Lotto Operators
Want to be Included in the New Dividend Lottery
Calls for the Government to Re-integrate GLOA Into the Lottery
Business by Amending the National Lottery Act
ACCRA, Ghana
(November 12, 2009) - Attempts to neglect the private sector in the
commencement of the dividend lottery will affect local capacity for job
creation and impact on revenue generation to support district assemblies and
national development..................Subscribers
New Lotteries Board Sworn
In
GHANA, Africa (November 6, 2009) - The Minister for Finance
& Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has inaugurated the new Board of
Directors for the National Lottery Authority (NLA) with a charge to speed up
the automation processes and ensure full automation by the first quarter of
2010......................Subscribers
Lotto Operators File
Appeal
ACCRA, Ghana (August 12, 2009) - The Ghana
Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) has filed for a review of the
Supreme Court's ruling barring their operations, News sources reported
today.....................Subscribers
National Lottery
Authority Initiates Drive to Woo Agents
HO, GHANA (August
12, 2009) – According to a local news reports the Volta Regional
Directorate of the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) has embarked on a
campaign to enlist previous employees of private lotto operators as sale
agents........................Subscribers
Private Lotto Agents
Ignore Court Ruling
HO, Ghana (August, 11 2009) -
Private lotto coupons are still being sold in the Ho Municipality despite a
court ruling banning the operation of lotteries by private companies in
Ghana...............Subscribers
Lottery Association
Ready to Partner Government in Job Creation
ACCRA, Ghana
(July 28, 2009) -- The Ghana Lotto Operators Association
(GLOA), on Tuesday said it was ready to partner government in
promoting its agenda of mobilizing revenue and creating job opportunities to
accelerate the growth of Ghana's economy.................Subscribers
Supreme Court Rules in
Favour of National Lottery Authority
GHANA (July 24, 2009)
-- The Supreme Court yesterday put to rest the long legal battle that had
ranged between the National Lottery Authority (NLA) and the Ghana
Lottery Operators Association (GLOA).................Subscribers
Government Must Revisit
Lottery Law- Operators
ACCRA, Ghana (July 2, 2009) --
Marketing organizations working under supervision of the Ghana Lotto
Operators Association (GLOA), on Thursday appealed to the government
to take a look at the operations and functions of the National Lotto Authority
(NLA)..........................Subscribers
Supreme Court to Rule on
National Lotto Authority's Application
ACCRA, Ghana (June
17, 2009) - The Supreme Court will on July 22 rule on an application filed by
the National Lotto Authority (NLA) invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court to quash the orders of an Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) in a
matter between the Authority and the Ghana Lotto Operators Association
(GLOA)....................Subscribers
National Lotto Authority
Files Application
ACCRA Ghana (June 3, 2009) -- The Ghana
News Agency (GNA) reports that the National Lotto Authority (NLA) has filed an
application to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to
quash the orders of an Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) in a matter between the
authority and the Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) and seven of its
members........................Subscribers
Lotto Marketers Raise
Over GH¢10 Million for National Lotteries Authority
ACCRA, Ghana (May 13, 2009) – According to local news sources last
year, the Association of Lotto Marketing Companies (LMCs) paid GH¢10.6
million to the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) towards the consolidated
fund. Furthermore, during the same period, the LMCs and their agents reportedly
paid a total of GH¢1.7 million in income tax....................Subscribers
High
Court Grants Lotto Operators Reprieve
ACCRA, Ghana (April 2,
2009) -- Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) has been granted the green
light to continue with their business after being prohibited by an Accra Fast
Track High Court in August last year..................Subscribers
The
Lotto Industry Generated GH¢10,600,000 in Revenue Last
Year
KUMASI, Ghana (March 27, 2009) – The Ghana News
Agency (GNA) reported that Mr. Kofi Frimpong, General Secretary of Lotto
Receivers Union, announced in Kumasi that the Lotto Industry contributed
GH¢10.6 million to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last
year..................Subscribers
Court
to Rule on Lotto Operators Association's Injunction
ACCRA,
Ghana (March 4, 2009) - An Accra Fast Track High Court will on April 1 rule in
respect of an injunction pending an appeal filed by the Ghana Lotto Operators
Association (GLOA)....................Subscribers
Supreme Court Grants Lotto Operators Association Order for
‘Certiorari’
ACCRA, Ghana (February11,
2009) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously granted an order for
‘certiorari’ filed by the Ghana Lotto Operators Association
(GLOA) against the National Lotto Authority (NLA)..................Subscribers
Government Urged to Take Lottery Sector
Serious
KUMASI, Ghana (February 10, 2009) - The government
has been advised to give greater attention to the games and lotteries sector to
help the country derive the needed revenue for
development...................Subscribers
Private Lotto Operators Petition
Government
ACCRA, Ghana (February 6, 2009) – A
delegation of Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA), yesterday presented a
petition to President John Evans Atta Mills at a closed-door meeting in his
office on matters relating to the ban imposed on private lotto operators in the
country's lottery system................Subscribers
Supreme Court to Rule on Lotto Operators Association's Order
for Certiorari
ACCRA, Ghana (January 20, 2009) - The Supreme
Court will on February 11, will deliver its ruling in an order for certiorari
filed by the Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA)................Subscribers
Call
to Amend the Lotto Act- GLOA
ACCRA, Ghana (January 6, 2009)
- The Ghana Lotto Operators Association (GLOA) on Tuesday called on the
incoming government to amend the National Lotto Act, Act 722 to enable them to
commence their businesses...............Subscribers
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