Dangote Refinery secures court orders against NMDPRA

Dangote Petroleum Refinery, through its lawyers had asked the court for “an order restraining the defendant, whether by itself, officers, servants, agents, partners, representatives, privies, or any person acting under its authority or direction, from enforcing, implementing, giving full effect to, or taking any steps or further steps pursuant to the directive contained in its letter dated August 24, 2026, by which it purported to suspend all loading and truck-out of products from the plaintiff’s refinery pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice, which has been filed contemporaneously with the present application.” ​The firm also prayed for an order of interim injunction restraining the defendant and all of its servants, privies, or agents from entering upon, sealing, shutting down, restricting access to, obstructing, suspending, disrupting, inspecting, supervising, sanctioning, or otherwise interfering with the 1st applicant’s refinery, petrochemical, terminal, storage, blending, loading, truck-out, and related facilities and operations situated in the Lekki Free Zone, in purported exercise of the directive contained in the defendant’s letter August 24, 2026, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice that has been filed contemporaneously with the present application.“From the depositions in the affidavit and the exhibits placed before the court, the contention of the plaintiff is that the defendant has no regulatory powers or oversight functions capable of affecting operations within the free zones, including the Dangote Industrial Free Zone.