# Nigeria critical minerals drive > Live situation record from CLSTR: https://clstr.news/situations/nigeria-critical-minerals-drive > Updated: 2026-08-23T17:23:10.000Z. Sources: 22. Developments: 3. In late July 2026, Nigeria’s Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, joined the African Development Bank’s Ministerial Forum in Abidjan. The meeting produced the Abidjan Declaration, urging African nations to assert greater ownership of their critical-minerals resources through data sovereignty, regional cooperation and financing for beneficiation. Alake promoted the Pan-African Resource Reporting Code and a West-African processing corridor linking Lagos to Dakar, while the United States International Development Finance Corporation signaled an expanded interest in West African mining. A week later, Alake led a delegation to the White House, where senior U.S. officials discussed a bilateral partnership to deepen U.S. investment across Nigeria’s critical-minerals value chain. The talks, framed within President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, focused on expanding exploration, mining, processing and local value addition to build secure, resilient supply chains for the global energy transition. Both events illustrate Nigeria’s shift from a regional call for African-led mineral development to concrete engagement with the United States to attract financing and technical support for its critical-minerals sector. Building on this momentum, the Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) announced it will host its Third High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa on September 21, 2026, in New York. Held on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, the summit will be chaired by President Tinubu. The roundtable, themed ‘From Resources to Wealth: Continental Cooperation for Mineral Value Addition’, aims to promote local processing and integrated value chains for strategic resources like lithium, copper, and cobalt. The summit intends to unveil the Continental Integration and Economic Assurance Declaration (CIEAD) and introduce the CIEAD Finance Window to mobilize funding for mineral processing infrastructure and technology. ## Claims - The Third High-Level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa will be held on September 21, 2026. (corroborated by 9 sources) - The summit aims to move Africa beyond the traditional extract-and-export model of raw minerals. (corroborated by 9 sources) - President Bola Tinubu will chair the roundtable in Manhattan, New York. (corroborated by 8 sources) - The roundtable will take place on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly. (corroborated by 8 sources) - Africa holds significant reserves of lithium, copper, cobalt, graphite, manganese, and rare earth elements. (corroborated by 8 sources) - The event will introduce the proposed Continental Integration and Economic Assurance Declaration (CIEAD) Finance Window. (corroborated by 2 sources) - The summit will advance the Mutual Assured Development (MADE) Framework. (corroborated by 2 sources) - The AMSG comprises more than 30 African countries. (single source) ## Timeline ### 2026-08-23: Africa Minerals Strategy Group to hold critical minerals summit in New York President Bola Tinubu will chair the AMSG Third High-Level Roundtable in New York on September 21, 2026, to promote African mineral value addition and move beyond raw mineral exports. 9 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/africa-minerals-strategy-group-to-host-critical-minerals-summit-in-new-york ### 2026-08-04: Nigeria's Solid Minerals Minister Dele Alake Leads Delegation to White House for US-Nigeria Critical Minerals Deal Nigeria’s solid‑minerals minister Dele Alake led a White House delegation to discuss U.S. investment and secure supply chains for critical minerals, aligning with President Tinubu’s economic diversification and 3 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/nigerias-solid-minerals-minister-dele-alake-leads-delegation-to-white-house-for-us-nigeria-critical- ### 2026-07-26: Nigeria and AfDB Call for African Control of Critical Minerals Nigeria’s Dele Alake and AfDB President Sidi Ould Tah urged African control of critical minerals at the Abidjan forum, calling for PARC, a Lagos‑Dakar processing corridor, and financing under the new Abidjan De 14 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/nigeria-and-afdb-urge-african-mineral-valueaddition-to-boost-local-economies --- Cite as: Nigeria critical minerals drive. CLSTR, https://clstr.news/situations/nigeria-critical-minerals-drive