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Ayoola Babalola

Ayoola Babalola is a writer and journalist with a focus on exposing political corruption, human rights violations, and amplifying social movements.

A dredging vessel sprays sand and sediment while workers wearing hard hats walk along newly reclaimed shoreline at the Dangote refinery construction site in Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Too big to regulate

Dangote’s refinery ended Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel and became Africa’s most important energy asset overnight when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. But it also became the country’s most powerful monopoly.