In a public announcement issued on August 3, the NLA said the decision followed consultations with stakeholders involved in the transition process. “Following stakeholder consultations, Management has extended the date<\/strong> for the cessation of manual operations,” the NLA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The regulator said that, under the terms of PLO licences, the use of manual paper<\/strong> was originally scheduled to cease on August 1. The revised deadline now gives operators, agents and writers until October 1 to comply with the new requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n The extension follows the NLA’s wider push to eliminate paper-based lottery staking and move Ghana’s lottery sector towards electronic operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NLA director-general Mohammed Abdul-Salam previously said some licensed operators were still using a hybrid model combining electronic point-of-sale (POS) systems with paper-based lottery sales. He said these arrangements would be phased out as the Authority moved towards a fully digital lottery system<\/a> aimed at modernising lottery operations, improving revenue generation for the state and strengthening regulatory oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NLA had earlier directed PLOs to end paper-based lottery staking as part of its digitalisation programme, with August 1 set as the original compliance deadline under PLO licence conditions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest announcement changes the implementation timeline but maintains the regulator’s requirement for operators to transition from manual paper-based processes to digital operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The authority also said those wishing to register as Lotto Marketing Companies<\/strong> (LMCs) should contact its sales managers at regional or district offices nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/08\/GHANA-NLA-494x600.jpeg\")
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