There is every indication that the FGN through its agency responsible for lottery promotions in Nigeria has directed all GSM companies in Nigeria to stop all GSM lotteries forthwith.

I observed that Mobile Thieves in Nigeria (MTN) has not sent me their cajoled sms since morning, only for me to see Mr. Peter Igho, the agency's DG on national television (NTA) this evening  issuing the directives.

Although coming a little bit late, it is better late than never.

The agency should however go a step further by investigating all claims since the beginning of the promos. This should also be extended to all lotteries in Nigeria because they are too good to be true.

Why must the first solution to apparently not so complicated problems be ban this ban that.

About time!!! 'was already getting frustrated wit all d text messages inundating me from all corners. These guys r cons & shld be put in their place.

May Allah be praised ! I never imagined that I will withness this action in my life time.I wonder why Ernest Ndukwe's NCC had been silent all this while if not they benefited from this armed robbery.

I had always had a bout of depression even time MTN sends me one of those annoying (scam) messages. I had wondered where all the relevant agencies are. I believe MTN should be sued for fraud. The say there are carrying out a world cup promotions, but they are not promoting anything, all they want you to do is to send them N100 to enter a lottery draw for a chance to win N10,000000, and some tickets to watch the world cup live. So do you qualify that as a promotion. A promo should involve rewards for using your product. Instead of giving free airtime or improving their services, they just want to collect money for nothing.

Worse still they make various claims like, you are applying for a job with not qualifications required. It is a ponzi scheme and nothing more.

NCC, NBC and the the National Assembly should wake up to their responsibilities and stop all these nonsense.

I would love to see this one.

Even etisalat of yesterday don open eye for this fraud thing.na wa o

No wonder i have not got any of those spam sms from zain; they should be made to refund all the cash to the subscribers.

About time! i was getting tired of ZAIN and their "u sef fit win 2 million naira cash" scam!

Hahahahah at least the govt has done something right, but y are we not calling for the sack of Ndukwe? Just me thinking aloud.

men , that gsm lottery thing was bringing a lot of cash to these people, too bad it is goin to be heavily moderated, so bye bye to all these tv game shows and stuff.
and i was thinking of making money from this

This is a good decision that only solves the problem temporarily. The GSM operators would have started brainstorming with their in-house Yahoo-Yahoo consultants on other ways milk their gullible customers.

The annoying thing was that MTN even copied or duplicated the exact same scam Zain was using, just changing content and prizes. Real shame.

thank God

was thinking of sueing them

hmm MTN they opened headquarter in Ghana ! funny ppl

Good riddance to bad bad rubbish! Fank God for this move, i appluad it a 100%.

marvix:

Hahahahah at least the govt has done something right, but y are we not calling for the sack of Ndukwe? Just me thinking aloud.

Ernest Ndukwe's tenure has expired, he is no longer the Executive Vice Chairman. Somebody is acting for now, not too sure of his name.

probably as a result of the ongoing lawsuit against mtn

Engr Stephen Bello is the Acting EVC of NCC

snowdrops:

Why must the first solution to apparently not so complicated problems be ban this ban that.

Bad english, who comprehends what you say?

it is daylight robbery,especially from MTN,i remember sending text to 320 to play for who wants to be a zillionaire and i expected them to deduct =N=200 but i was  wrong because they sent another text afterwards that my text was acknowledged but i have to answer a simple question to qualify for the game proper,i did as i was told i answered the question and another =N= 200 was deducted,a few minutes later i receive another text that they require me to answer the final question to fully qualify for this week`s edition of the program,the mugu in me answered the new question with hopes building up (and another =N= 200 deducted,in about fifteen minutes from the time i answered the last question they (the yahoo-yahoo guys at MTN) sent me another question again as the entry question! i almost smashed the phone on the wall,after collecting =N=600 naira from me,they still want more,at the end of the day they went to Ghana to build their west african headquarters,after raking billions of naira from our country

Whew! At last some relief! It's a welcome development! It has always been a rip-off. . . . Oles!!!

Enough is enough

This action is long overdue, sometimes I use to wonder the type of money they gave to the FG that they can do anything they like all in the name of promotions and helping poor Nigerians when they will end up enriching themselves from the same poor masses. Dubious people.

What about Etisalat 1M dollar, OLE OLE

The financial tactis of these communication syndicate is very fraudulent,
Just last month zain deducted my 95mb after just opening my facebook page and yahoo e mail and returned only 400 naira , and when I got there a computer record was showed to me implying that I never acquire 100mb which was untrue and so I had to drop the complaint,

all dese networks are desperados,

Even shows like 'Who wants to be a millionaire' ought to be barned.

Imagine how much people loose on that show just to get to the hot seat?

And some may never get there.

Never attempted it and never will. I only watch that show to laugh with the winner and laugh at the looser.

I can bet my cash on it that over 500,000 people spend 200 naira each day just to call and answer questions.

While in every week people get to win less than 10,000,000.  I think the so called Baba Ijebu is even better than the program.
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The Federal Government has more to do.

Nice one from FG.

who should be blamed now if not that u guys are greedy, why would you send the text? they sent you a text to enter into a promo, did they force you to reply
u won chop 100 milla without sweating? c dem complaining, GREEDY GREEDY!!!

They have conned people and closed shop (ofcourse in liason with some agents in govt)

Many people joined that band wagon of the HYIP's that scammed alot of people around 2007/2008 in Nigeria. Only God knows if the Federal Government will be able to pay them refunds.

When all that was happening I remained in NSE and was doing some petty online HYIP where I know that I can manage my loss.

It is just unfortunate that alot of people forget easily. If any scheme should emerge very few will give it a good thought before going for the kill.

ARE THEY GOING TO SHUT DOWN frank's who want to be a millionnaire?

No news about that

THank God! I hate those frustrating sms