The above historical evaluation point to the fact that the following forms of gambling are legal in Nigeria and they include:
1. Sports Betting
2. Online Gambling at offshore operated sites that admit Nigerians ( Unregulated in Nigeria)
3. Lotteries
4. Mobile Gambling
5. Scratch Cards, Promotions and Competitive Interactive games
6. Pools
7. Land Casino games such as blackjack, Roulette, and slots ( Federal Palace Hotels and Casino (VI, Lagos), Transcorp Hilton Abuja and Le Meridien Eko Hotel and Casino (Lagos)

Illegal Gambling will therefore include:
• Non-skill based card game ( Cashie, Te-Te e, Kalokalo, etc)
• Any form of a game of chance
• Online casinos
• And promotion that is not approved by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering and the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion.

EMPLOYEES RIGHT AND GAMBLING

It is pertinent to states that employees are permitted to exercise their legitimate right within the ambit of the nations law without violating the rules and regulations of the organization that they work for. Except the organization you work for is a licensed betting company that permits its personnel to stake bet doing otherwise is a violation of your employment contract which requires that the companys business is carried out within official working hours, giving it your time and total devotion.
In as much as no restriction is placed on individuals who should participate in licensed gambling other than the qualification 18 years and above, employees are free to get involved in licensed gambling OUTSIDE their official working hours. Leaving your beat to go and stake bet or make a pool forecast during your official work-time is a violation of the employment contract.

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In addition to the above there are other likely implications of workplace gambling:

• Inability to remain focused
Delivering on work assignment requires total commitment and focus, anything that takes a workers attention off the job is likely going to affect task outcome and productivity in general. When employees, therefore leave their workplace to make a bet such action is most likely going to be detrimental to the business goals and objective.

• Causing a distraction to other team members
Work process demands that employees work together as a team to maximize resources, delivery time and turn out better product and services. When a team member is distracted, however, for any reason, that will definitely affect the overall team performance and deliverables.

• Constant request for salary advance
Gambling as we know can lead to addiction or the desperate need to win at all cost. Like other forms of addiction, an employee would constantly need money to satisfy his or her need of aiming for the next jackpot. This can, therefore, lead to employee running out of money and therefore resorting to requesting for I.O.U or the request for a salary advance.

• Likely case of financial fraud
In worst case scenario an uncontrollable passion for winning at all cost could lead to fraud, pilfering, theft and corrupt action on the part of the employee against the interest of the organization.

• Theft of employers time
Time theft is a major challenge with those that are involved in hourly betting or online gambling, checking of daily resulting and monitoring ongoing games such as soccer, racing, and boxing etc. will certainly affect the amount of time that the employee dedicates to doing the employers work.

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