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# Nigeria Halts Binance Airdrop Amid Ongoing Legal Disputes – “Such a Shame”
* Nigerian users cannot participate in Binance airdrop promotions.
* Binance is currently dealing with multiple criminal accusations in Nigeria.
* A court date regarding the $81 billion penalty levied against Binance has been pushed back to April 7.
Crypto lovers in Nigeria are showing their sadness at losing out on Binance airdrops as a result of the prolonged disagreement between the Nigerian government and the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.
This week, some Nigerians attempting to use Binance Web3 Quests, a platform that offers crypto gifts, were told that the service was no longer available to them.
“It’s really unfortunate that in a country like Nigeria, where there’s a lot of excitement for cryptocurrency, our chances to interact with the industry are getting more and more limited,” Chike Nnadi, a Nigerian crypto trader based in Lagos, told *DL News*.
## Crypto Gifts for Free
Nnadi, a student at the University of Lagos, noted that taking part in Binance Web3 Quests to “farm airdrops” has become a popular activity for young, crypto-literate Nigerians.
Binance Web3 Quests let users **obtain** free crypto gifts by doing easy social media tasks, like following a project’s X (previously Twitter) account or inviting friends.
Participants had the chance to make up to $50 per day.
“Think about it, in a country where a large number of people live in poverty, having access to such a big earning opportunity, only to have it taken away. It’s really upsetting,” Nnadi said.
## Screenshots Come to Light
Binance has more than 380,000 active users in Nigeria. This week, a number of Nigerian crypto users got in touch with *DL News*, sharing screenshots as proof that they couldn’t access the company’s crypto gift platform.
Rume Ophi, a Nigerian crypto analyst, told *DL News* that cryptocurrencies are still under close regulatory control in the country, which is hurting their adoption in Africa’s most populated country.
This access restriction is the latest in a string of restrictions that Binance has put on its Nigerian users.
In the previous year, the Binance crypto exchange implemented steps to prevent Nigerians from utilizing its peer-to-peer trading system and eliminated the digital form of Nigeria’s lawful currency, the naira.
These operations came after allegations from Nigerian government representatives who held Binance responsible for the decrease in the naira’s worth, resulting in a considerable legal dispute between the exchange and the government.
**Executives Imprisonment**
Because of the disagreement, two top-level Binance managers were apprehended and imprisoned in Nigeria.
Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of monetary compliance in the United States and a previous U.S. federal representative, was kept for eight months before accusations were dismissed and he was freed. TruBit Collaborates with Morpho to Introduce DeFi Unearned Revenue in Latin America
The Nigerian government likewise submitted accusations against Binance for money laundering and tax avoidance.
In February, the government looked for a significant $81 billion penalty from Binance, declaring that the company’s prohibited operations in the nation had harmed the Nigerian economy.
On Monday, Judge Inyang Ekwo delayed the procedures until April to choose whether the case would continue to the trial.
*Osato Avan-Nomayo, our DeFi reporter in Nigeria, reports on DeFi and technology. You can contact him at [email protected].*
