Gambling is legal in Nigeria, and it has contributed to reducing poverty because, in the absence of other job possibilities, only people with connections can consistently obtain work in Nigeria. Gambling has benefited many young people and transformed their life for the better. Only God knows what will happen to them if they rely on the government. However, some Nigerian gamblers fail to conduct proper research before playing, and everything requires knowledge. There are many complaints from Nigerians regarding betting scam platforms, including 1xbet. Everyone knows that 1xbet is merely a hype site promoted by influencers, which is why it's necessary to do research before betting.
I don't think this is entirely truth, I'm not disputing that Nigerian youths don't gamble but the question is how many of them that gamble really makes money from gambling? Many of them actually gamble but only few makes money because what the majority of them do is to copy code and bets from other gamblers and out of 100 bets in week, they might luckily win one from the games and if care is not taken, you might not even win the one they play.
People are gambling because they don't have means to make money from other source but this doesn't mean they are making money from it, just few of them in numbers has successfully made money from gambling.
Nigeria is large, so it's possible that people gamble from your side aren't benefiting, but from what I've seen from those who are gambling here, they're making a lot of money from gambling. I haven't traveled all over the country, but statistics show that Nigeria has 65 million active users who gamble, and they spent nearly $1 billion on gambling alone. I know that some of these users will benefit from it, but it cannot be everyone, which is why I stated that it has reduced poverty in the country, but only for those who gamble.
There are ways Nigerians make money that help to lessen poverty in the country, but we are talking about gambling aspect.
forget that there is difficulty in the country I know of people simply hustle to acquire money so that they can use it to gamble and many of them used to gain from it as they intended.