Ghana NLA cancels September 21 lotto draws
The cancellation comes as Ghana observes Founders’ Day on September 21.
Ghana.- The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has cancelled all lotto draws scheduled for Monday, September 21, after the date was declared a statutory public holiday for Founders’ Day.
The NLA announced the cancellation on Thursday, September 17, in a notice confirming that all draws planned for September 21 will not take place because of the holiday.
Ghana restored September 21 as Founders’ Day in 2025 following changes to its public holiday calendar. The date is also the birthday of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, whose role in the country’s independence movement has long been associated with the observance.
The decision particularly affects the NLA’s Monday Special draw, a 5/90 lottery game in which players select five numbers from 1 to 90, with the winning numbers determined during the scheduled weekly draw.
The development comes as the NLA moves towards its October 1 deadline for ending manual, paper-based lotto operations by Private Lotto Operators (PLOs), agents and writers. The transition requires PLOs to replace paper-based staking with Point of Sale (POS) terminals. The NLA said operators, agents and writers that fail to comply will not be permitted to provide lottery services.
