Tag Archives: Ghana

West African bookmaker Safaribet has stepped up to become the title sponsor of the Ghana Premier League 2016/17 football season. Reported by Ghanaian football news source GhanaSoccerNet.com, Ghana FA and Premier League officials were seeking a secure a title sponsor for its sixteen team league failing to secure sponsorship in 2016. The bookmaker has operated in Ghana since 2012, becoming …

Betway Ghana (a syndicated Betway brand) has stepped up its efforts to prevent under-age gambling, requiring its customers to provide foolproof identification and further stringent checks when placing bets via its services. The operator stated that it wanted to improve Ghana industry practices with regards to monitoring customers and discouraging any form of underage gambling, a matter which has hit …

European sports betting operator mybet.com has expanded its profile and coverage in West Africa by agreeing sponsorship terms with Ghana Premier League football club Sekondi Hasaacas FC. Hosting a press conference this Saturday, Sekondi Hasaacas governance unveiled mybet.com as its new season sponsor. The financial terms of the sponsorship were not disclosed, however mybet.com marketing revealed that it had been …

Yahaya Maikori Senior Partner of Law Allianz will be presenting African market development at ICE 2016 focusing on opportunities in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana & South Africa. Maikori details to SBC readers how these markets have progressed in 2015, and how consumers are developing new habits amid a fast growing and aggressive market place. Maikori has advised state governments, institutions and helped several …

Understanding what is happening on the ground is any given market is often said to be one of the keys to success in the gambling world and nowhere is this more evident that on the continent of Africa. Across the sub-Sahara from the Francophone west to the English-speaking countries of East Africa and down to the Portuguese-speaking eastern coastal regions, …

Ghana welcomed new betting operator Soccabet, who announced its official launch this weekend at a special media event in Accra. Soccabet CEO Gungoreen Arslan outlined plans for the operator in Ghana, stating that the brand would cater the best sports betting experience for both betting shop and online customers, in the fast growing Ghanaian market. The launch of Soccabet will …

Finnish based gambling technology and gaming platform provider Finnplay has announced that it has provided its sports betting kiosk solution to Ghanaian based betting agency Simplebet. Simplebet will integrate the solution throughout its Ghana based retail sports betting agency portfolio, giving players access to greater market selection and easier customer processing Erkki Nikunen, Vice President of Sales for Finnplay, commented on the …

Ghanaian Football League Champions Kumasi Asante Kotoko FC have announced the first ever sponsorship between a Ghana professional football club and a bookmaker. The football club announced that it had signed a three year betting partnership with African focused sports betting operator – Supabets – http://www.supabets.com.gh/Sport/Default.aspx Kumasi Asante Kotoko senior management announced that the new deal with Supabets was worth …

Ghana sports betting is on the up according to African Business Correspondence Magazine ‘Ventures Africa‘. Ghana one of the leading lights in African business and GDP is witnessing a popular birth of regulated and licensed sports betting in accordance with its national laws. Over the past 18 months Ghana has approved 5 sports betting operators to offer odds and pool …