🇳🇬 English, 6 October 2026, extractive transparency
AI Engine Exposing Nigeria's 'Hidden' Miners
Minetrix AI gives communities data to negotiate Community Development Agreements from a position of knowledge
To fight this information opacity, Anthony Adejuwon and his team at Urban Alert spent nine months building Minetrix AI. By ingesting over 37,000 public records, land registries, and environmental audits into a multilingual conversational engine, the platform gives communities the exact data they need to negotiate Community Development Agreements from a position of knowledge.
The information gap facing these communities is rarely a matter of non-existent data; rather, it is a problem of accessibility and comprehension. Data is often buried behind fragmented government portals, locked on physical office shelves, or presented in technical formats and languages that ordinary citizens cannot digest.
The platform enables users to query Nigeria’s solid minerals sector in English, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba, and provides factual context by aggregating and standardising disparate datasets from government registries, research bodies, and civil society organisations.