On September 24, 2025, The Fourth Estate published the first story of a series of stories we will be publishing in the coming days and weeks, following our investigations into the operations of the National Lottery Authority (NLA).

The story focused on how, in 2021, the NLA, under the leadership of Samuel Awuku as its then Director-General, set up what the authority calls the NLA Good Causes Foundation in response to provisions of the law that established the authority. The law requires the Authority to conduct, as part of its operations, a lottery to provide care and protection for the physically or mentally afflicted, the needy, the aged, orphans, and destitute children.

Instead of disbursing funds of the NLA Good Causes Foundation in accordance with the law that established it – section 2(3) of the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act 722), the funds were used for glamorous events and activities of the elite and politicians.

Here is the full list of beneficiaries of the funds spanning from 2021 to 2024.

GCF BENEFICIARIESDownload