Strengthening Public Procurement Systems with Accountability Lab Nigeria’s AI-Enabled Open Contracting Tool

Procurement processes in Nigeria are often opaque and difficult for the public to access or understand. Citizens barely have no way of knowing how public contracts were awarded, and journalists struggle to uncover discrepancies hidden in hard copy procurement documents. This is as a result of manual, outdated and opaque processes allowing loopholes, inflated contracts, and weak compliance to thrive, leaving communities disconnected from the very services meant to serve them. “The truth is, people don’t ask questions when there’s [...]