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North Carolina lottery winner to use $100,000 prize to fund schools in MaliNews Story
Lottery win will benefit education in-state and overseas Includes video report By Kate Northrop A $100,000 lottery win is giving a North Carolina man the chance to contribute to his hometown in Mali by funding education and culture for schoolchildren there. New Bern resident and Mali native Souleymane Sana is making sure his $100,000 prize is benefiting his hometown in a number of ways. I'm going to keep doing my best to help build more classrooms for the children in Mali, Sa
May 22, 2023, 2:12 pm - Lottery News

Bad news for record S. African lottery "winner"News Story
A deaf South African cleaner besieged by begging relatives after a newspaper reported he had scooped a 91 million rand (US$12 million) lottery jackpot was not the winner, the draw's organizers said on Tuesday. National Lottery spokeswoman Thembi Tulwana said the real winner of Friday's South Africa PowerBall draw was an unnamed 43-year-old woman, and not 52-year-old Stanley Philander, a Cape Town hardware store cleaner reported to have carried off the record rollover prize. Tulwana said Ph
Feb 17, 2010, 8:32 am - Lottery News

South Africa has become hotbed of lottery fraudNews Story
South Africa has become a criminal base for 419 international lottery fraudsters attempting to defraud people from around the world by sending unsolicited emails of false winning notices.This was revealed by Uthingo Management Corporate Services Director Dawid Muller at the World Lottery Association Convention and Trade Show, which is taking place at the International Convention Centre in Durban this week.Muller also released a list of lottery scam organisations that have been attempting to defr
Nov 16, 2004, 8:43 am - Lottery News

First Nigeria On-Line Lottery Makes DebutNews Story
The first national on-line lottery game, Lotto Nigeria, has been launched.Established on April 30, 2004, with a 30 year national lottery license granted by the Federal government, NSL Lotteries Management Company Limited (NSL LMC) a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Sports Lotteries Limited will operate the lottery.While unveiling the game recently at Oceanview Restaurant, Ikoyi Lagos State, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Rick Wagner, said with the technical support of Tat
Oct 1, 2004, 8:39 am - Lottery News