Nigeria, July 28 -- Despite a huge number of people engaged in betting, Nigerian government generated less than N1 billion from the gaming industry in 2019, Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, George Akume, has said.

Mr Akume spoke Wednesday at the maiden National Gaming Conference themed "Repositioning the Gaming Industry for Better Performance and Enhanced Revenue Generation for Stakeholders in the 21st century."

"This is not only disappointing, it is unsustainable and unacceptable," he said.

Mr Akume said the revenue generation begs the questions on why the gaming industry is not doing more, "why it has contributed less than N10 billion to the National Lottery Trust Fund in the last 10 years, and where the reve...