How to check a bookmaker is licensed here

The Gaming Commission of Ghana licenses betting and gaming under the Gaming Act 2006. Its published list of licensed companies carries the operating company, the trading name, the type of operation and the period the licence runs for.

What the list does not carry is a licence number. Every number in circulation therefore comes from somewhere else: an operator’s own footer, an app store listing, or a third-party page. Several of the records this site reads carry two numbers from two of those sources that disagree with each other, and one operator has four different numbers attributed to it across the market.

So the check that works is the name and the class. Look up the operating company rather than the brand, because they are frequently different, and check that the class covers what the site is actually selling you. Two operators in this market run a full casino while appearing on the register under a sports betting licence only, which is a difference between the register and the product rather than an allegation.

A licence class is also the cleanest way to settle whether a brand is what it claims. One casino brand in this market is on the register under an online casino licence and nothing else, its own platform configuration switches the sportsbook off, and its site map contains no sports pages at all. Three independent confirmations of the same thing beats any badge on a homepage.