{"id":55832,"date":"2025-10-03T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdb-terminates-inzozi-lotto-s-license-to-operate-rwanda-s-national-lottery\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:26:06","slug":"rdb-terminates-inzozi-lotto-s-license-to-operate-rwanda-s-national-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdb-terminates-inzozi-lotto-s-license-to-operate-rwanda-s-national-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"RDB terminates Inzozi Lotto\u2019s license to operate Rwanda\u2019s National Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a public notice released on Thursday, RDB said the decision follows the company\u2019s failure to meet its contractual and regulatory obligations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, Inzozi Lotto is no longer authorized to operate the National Lottery in Rwanda,\u201d the notice read.<\/p>\n<p>The RDB assured players who have winning claims that they are still entitled to their prizes, with Inzozi Lotto remaining fully responsible for paying all outstanding valid winnings. <\/p>\n<p>The National Lottery and Gambling Commission along with RDB are expected to supervise the process to ensure fairness and compliance.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also confirmed that RDB will soon begin a competitive process to identify a new operator or operators for the National Lottery. This process, according to the board, will follow strict principles of transparency, accountability, and safeguarding the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>RDB reminded all companies in the gaming and gambling industry that they must strictly comply with the country\u2019s laws and regulations governing the sector.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-95519\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg\" alt=\"The Rwanda Development Board (RDB), through the National Lottery and Gambling Commission (NLGC), has revoked the license of Inzozi Lotto (Carousel Ltd) to operate the National Lottery in Rwanda.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda Development Board (RDB), through the National Lottery and Gambling Commission (NLGC), has revoked the license of Inzozi Lotto (Carousel Ltd) to operate the National Lottery in Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000095518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000095518,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-02_at_21.44_12_c39e5f61-c2e80.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000095518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55832"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55832"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}