Here is a fictional first-person biography in English of Philip R. Harmon:
My name is Philip R. Harmon, and for the last eight years, I have worked in Lagos, Nigeria, as a sports betting analyst and content specialist.
I first got into the betting industry back in 2017 when a friend dragged me into a small betting shop in Surulere to watch a Champions League night. What started as casual fun quickly turned into an obsession not with gambling itself, but with the numbers, the patterns, and the sheer amount of publicly available data that most punters completely ignore. Within a year, I was making more from disciplined value betting than from my day job in marketing, so I decided to go all in.
Today, I work full-time as a senior analyst and writer for Betsites.ng, one of the leading betting site review and comparison platforms in Nigeria. My main job is to test, review, and rank every licensed bookmaker operating in the country-from big international names to the fast-growing local brands. I personally sign up to each site (often with my own money), deposit, place real bets, test the speed of withdrawals, hammer the customer support at 2 a.m., and document everything. If a site promises "instant withdrawals" but actually takes 48 hours, I call it out. If a new bookmaker suddenly offers suspiciously generous odds on the NPFL, I dig until I figure out whether it's a genuine edge or a trap.
In addition to reviews, I release daily and weekly betting previews with deep statistical breakdowns, especially for the Premier League, La Liga, and the NBA, plus of course the Nigeria Professional Football League. I'm probably one of a few analysts in this market who actually does watch every single NPFL game, yes, even the grainy streams from the Samuel Okwaraji Stadium at 10 a.m. on a Sunday.
People often wonder if I still bet myself. The answer is yes, but very selectively and almost mechanically. There's no room for emotions in what I do. It's all EV, CLV, and Poisson distribution models in Google Sheets before breakfast.
Outside of work, I'm a boring 34-year-old who drinks too much coffee, supports Enyimba FC, and tries to convince my mum that what I do for a living is a respectable career. So far, no luck with the last part.
If you're in Nigeria and tired of betting sites that disappear with your money or refuse to pay out on a winning ticket, that's precisely why I do what I do on Betsites.ng: someone has to hold these companies accountable, and apparently, it's me.
