Section 34: General offences and penalties.

(1) Any person who-
(a) forges any lottery ticket or causes any ticket to be forged;
(b) knowingly disposes of, or attempts to sell or dispose of any forged or stolen ticket;
(c) alters any number or figure or falsifies or otherwise disfigures any ticket with the intent to defraud;
(d) with the intent to defraud, takes or converts to his own use or to use of any other person, any proceeds from a lottery operated by the licensee;
(e) knowingly sells to any person under the age of eighteen years any ticket in a lottery operated by a licensee;
(f) fraudulently or unlawfully holds himself out as an agent of the licensee;
(g) as an incentive or inducement to enter into a contract, or as a condition or consequence of entering into a contract, gives a guarantee or promise to a person to the effect that the person will win a prize or share of a prize in a lottery;
(h) conducts or promotes a scheme under which a guarantee or promise is given to a person participating in the scheme to the effect that the person will win a prize or share out of a prize in a lottery; or
(i) contravenes any provisions of this Act where no specific penalty is provided, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less than N20,000 or imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Where an offence under subsection (1) of this section is committed by a body corporate, the body corporate shall be liable to a fine of not less than N100,000 and in addition, each director, manager or officer of the body corporate shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less than N20,000 or imprisonment for a term of not less than one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) Save as provided under this Act and notwithstanding the provision of any other enactment to the contrary, the operation of any lottery on a national basis or on inter-State basis is hereby declared unlawful.
(4) Pursuant to the above provision, no person shall establish or conduct a lottery at national level or employ the use of a national platform or interstate basis to-
(a) conduct a lottery, either through personal application or any electronic transmission;
(b) print a ticket in a lottery;
(c) sell, buy or offer for sale or give or accept a ticket in a lottery;
(d) publish or exhibit in a newspaper or broadcast, telecast or on a notice by electronic means or otherwise any information relating to a lottery;
(e) sell or dispose of any property of any kind or allot any prize of money by means of a game of chance or a game of mixed chance and skill; or
(f) keep a house or place for the purpose of conducting a lottery, whether the house or place is used for any other purpose.