Lotto Nigeria to Rise From the Dust?
Opinion: By Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (December 23 2005) -- This whole Nigerian Lotto thing gets curiouser and curiouser by the day. Readers will remember that the National Sports Lottery (and it's Parastals) were missing one Lotto Nigeria just a few weeks back..............................Subscribers

An Exciting Year and More to Come – Looking Back on 2005 and Looking Ahead to the New Year
MECN’s 2005 Review and 2006 Outlook of the Gambling and Gaming Industry
Article provided By: Media & Entertainment Consulting Network GmbH. (MECN)
LONDON, United Kingdom (December 14, 2005) -- We have been tracking the media and entertainment industry for quite a while now, and we have seldom seen any industry sector moving and shaking as much as today’s gambling and gaming sectors. Therefore, we would like to review the highlights of 2005 and look ahead to what is in store in the coming year. Let’s begin with our review of an exciting year..............................Subscribers

Nigerian National Lottery Board Established, Better Late than Never
Opinion By: Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants
One these new parastatals is the National Lottery Regulatory Commission with Senator Kanu Agabi Chairman and the National Lottery Trust Fund Board of Trustees headed by Chief Austine Obigwe with Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu as member.............................Subscribers

Another Nigerian Lotto Bites the Dust*?
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (November 17, 2005) -- There can't be any more Nigerian Lotto's you say? Read on Dear Reader. As well as the clouds of dust kicked up by Lotto Nigeria (and perhaps sooner than later, Lagos lotto which continues to struggle with sales hovering around US$30,000 per week), there has been another  Lotto start up in Nigeria we have not heard too much about, a mobile phone operation, M-Lotto.............................Subscribers

Gambling, Lotteries Excluded from Vote to Lift Barriers on Cross-Border Services
BRUSSELS, Belgium (November 22, 2005) --European conservatives won a key vote on Tuesday in the European Parliament when they pushed through a draft law that could allow European companies working in other countries to apply laws and work rules applicable in their homeland..................................Subscribers

Another African Lottery ‘Bites the Dust’
MANZINI, Swaziland (November 16, 2005) – The Sheriff’s office has reportedly “attached” the assets of Swazi Lotto to recover debts............................Subscribers

Lotto Nigeria Now to Bite the Dust?
Opinion By: Glenn Barry  of McCallum Consultants.
I am thinking of copyrighting or trademarking this "Bites the Dust" headline, (maybe even patenting it in the US which seems to be what you do with anything remotely connected with lotteries these days).
This is the third piece I have written on African lotteries this past few weeks with "Bites the Dust" in the headline, something is going very wrong given the supposed expertise of experienced executives and consultants  who have been played a role in these new start ups in Africa. First it was Swaziland and now a lot of well known people and organizations have put their reputations on the line over the Nigerian start ups Lagos Lotto and Lotto Nigeria............................Subscribers

Lagos Lotto Next to Bite the Dust?
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (October 27th 2005) -- After looking at the apparent demise or at least near death experience of Swaziland Lotto last week in Lottery Insider  I looked in on the new Lotto games in Nigeria to see how things were going there..............................Subscribers

Swaziland Lotto Bites the Dust
Article By: Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants.
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (October 18, 2005) -- In quick succession the Afrilotto Pty Ltd  lotto venture trading as Swazi Lotto in Swaziland (Africa, right hand side, between South Africa and Mozambique)  seems to have been hit with a series of events that will see the demise of the less than one year old (42 draws) venture sometime this week................................Subscribers

Survey Reveals More than 9 in 10 Lotteries Test the Randomness of their Lottery Results
DUBLIN, Ireland (July 27, 2005) -- The expert lottery consultants, Insight Statistical Consulting recently conducted a survey of lotteries worldwide to ascertain the occurrence, nature and extent of statistical analysis of lottery data............................Subscribers

Filling the Pockets of Our Beneficiaries Instead of Our Own
Article By: Ilkka Juva, Communications Director, Veikkaus Oy
VEIKKAUS, Finland (June 6, 2005) -- People frequently talk about Veikkaus' benefits, when they actually mean the ways in which we benefit society in general, or the beneficiaries of Veikkaus funds on a more specific level...............................Subscribers

New TV Lottery Proposal Would Put Winners on the Box
MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia (March 28, 2005) -- Simond Townsend, who hosted the popular TV show 'Wonderworld' for nearly a decade in the 1980s, is reportedly plotting a television comeback with a plan to put lottery winners on the box.......................Subscribers

Nigerian Mobile Lotto's Missing Millions
SYDNEY, Australia (January 5, 2005) -- Can't see that I will be calling international to get a piece of the action in the new Nigerian M-Lotto announced yesterday in Lottery Insider..........................Subscribers