In 2014, I founded a for-profit company focused on helping people realise their ideas in the built environment. In 2020, I made a deliberate transition to establish a nonprofit organisation, driven by a desire to align my work more closely with my values. That amounted to six years of running a for-profit company and another six years of running a nonprofit. Overall, l am pleased to lead this work and remain committed to addressing the parts of our society that need improvement. @InsideOsogbo

Information opacity in the minerals and mining sector has, over the years, made it difficult for communities and journalists to demand accountability. That’s why we built Minetrix AI. Great piece from @effective_Adoyi techcabal.com/2026/10/06/who…

The twin tragedies in Minna and Mayo Kam this week expose a mining system that has surrendered far too much space to overbearing illegality. In Niger State, dozens of young men arrested during raids on suspected illegal gold sites were packed into an overcrowded detention cell and later found dead; survivors describe heat, no ventilation, little water, and people collapsing around them. In Taraba, a pit at Mayo Kam simply gave way, burying more than twenty people, among them women and children who had gone into the ground because artisanal mining remains one of the few livelihoods available. These are not isolated accidents. They are the predictable result of a sector where licensing is opaque, environmental and safety rules are weakly enforced, and the line between informal survival mining and organised criminal extraction has been allowed to blur for years. What we witnessed is not merely “illegal mining”, but a governance failure that first creates the conditions for unregulated pits in residential areas and community farmlands, then responds with force that itself becomes lethal. When enforcement agencies can detain scores of people without adequate facilities, medical screening, or transparent process, and when communities can still send children into unsupported shafts because formal, safer pathways do not exist, the state has already conceded the field. Urban Alert has documented how illicit gold activity in and around Minna has damaged neighbourhoods, fuelled gang violence, and left residents living beside open pits. The same pattern repeats across mineral-rich states: weak cadastral systems, poor inter-agency coordination, and a political economy that treats artisanal miners as disposable until a body count forces headlines. Nigeria cannot keep treating mineral accountability as an afterthought. We need transparent licensing that is actually accessible to small-scale operators, real-time public data on sites and operators, independent investigation of both the custody deaths and the pit collapse, and a shift from raid-and-detain tactics to regulated, safer artisanal and small-scale mining that protects lives and communities. Until then, Minna and Mayo Kam will not be the last names we mourn. The system has given illegality too much room; it is time to take that room back with evidence, law, and respect for human life.

Three civic-tech platforms shaped how Nigerians saw the Osun 2026 election. They didn’t wait for permission to drive transparency. They bridged the gap. #CivicTechG #CivicTech #Dataphyte #NEIS #Mundx #osundecides2026 @jayangbayi

Thanks for amplifying this, again @theayoadams. It’s almost five years since we began, and I hope the Isese community will own up to this problem and take the front seat in advocating for #SaveOsunRiver.