0700 BETS NG (0700 2387 64) · Mon–Fri 9am–6pm WAT Help & FAQ 18+ Responsible play
Nigerian-owned, edited in Lagos RC 1892455 · Lagos Affiliate disclosure
Betting Sites →

Fact Checking

What we fact-check

Every numeric claim, every bonus amount, every minimum deposit, every licence reference, every date.

Primary sources

  • Operator websites and terms pages
  • Licence registries (Curaçao, LSLGA, etc.)
  • Our live test account activity
  • Official statements and press releases from operators

Secondary sources

  • Reputable industry press (Gambling Insider, iGaming Business, SBC News)
  • Academic and regulatory publications

Verification cadence

Content is verified before publication, audited every 30 days, and fully re-checked every quarter.

What a Bets.ng fact-check looks like

A fact-check at Bets.ng is not a copy-edit. Every page goes through a three-stage verification: the writer (Tolu, Chinwe or Emeka) submits a draft, Tunde (our dedicated fact-checker) pulls every numeric claim into a spreadsheet with a source column, and the page does not ship until every cell has either a primary source (the operator's terms, a licence registry, a payment-rail fee schedule) or a Bets.ng test log.

Tunde maintains a running register of every number we have rejected during the fact-check stage. As of April 2026 the register has 812 entries across 24 months. Examples we caught and fixed before publication: a writer stated a minimum deposit of N200 when the operator's page said N500; another claimed a bonus rollover of 5x when the T&Cs said 8x; a third put a licence year at 2019 when the operator's own footer said 2017.

What we verify

Licences and registration numbers against the issuing authority (Lagos State Gaming Authority, NLRC, Curaçao eGaming).

Minimum and maximum bet limits, odds boundaries and payout caps against the operator's published rules page.

Bonus rollover multipliers, time windows and excluded markets against the bonus terms page at the time of publication.

Payment-rail fees, minimums and maximums against the rail's official fee schedule (OPay, Paystack, Flutterwave).

Withdrawal timings against our own test log, updated quarterly.

Match results, squad news and referee assignments against primary sources (NPFL site, FIFA, national association sites).

Author biographies and credentials against public profiles and previous employer citations.

What we do when we get it wrong

Every correction is published on our corrections page with the date, the original claim, the corrected claim and the source.

Corrections are credited: if a reader spots the error, we name them on the corrections page unless they ask us not to.

Material errors (licence, fee, rollover) trigger a same-page correction notice at the top of the article for 30 days.

Cosmetic errors (typos, broken links) are fixed silently but still logged internally.

If a bonus changes between publication and your reading, we backdate the article with an updated note rather than quietly rewriting.

Independence

Bets.ng earns commission when readers sign up with an operator via our affiliate links. That is fully disclosed on our affiliate-disclosure page.

We do not take payment for favourable reviews. We have declined six operator proposals in the last 12 months on editorial grounds and the numbers on those pages reflect that.

Tunde has no commercial conflict with any operator — he is salaried, never paid per review, and has no operator bonuses or share schemes.

Complaints about our independence should go to tolu@bets.ng or, if unresolved, to the Editors Guild of Nigeria.