The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Friday, May 22, 2026, dismissed a suit brought by Alternate Dimensions Ventures Limited against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, in which the Claimant sought the sum of $19,600,000 (Nineteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) as professional fees allegedly arising from an alleged breach of a Direct Sale, Direct Purchase (DSDP e-pro) contract.
On the Court papers made available to us, Alternate Dimensions Ventures Ltd, represented by its counsel Patrick Peter, had alleged that, in the course of executing the DSDP e-pro project contract it entered into with the NNPCL, the scope of the contract was expanded, and that it was entitled to the revised sum of $19,600,000, (Nineteen Million, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) as the professional fees and compensation for the services rendered under the purported expanded scope.
NNPCL, through its Counsel, Ituah Imhanze of KENNA, argued that parties are bound strictly by the terms of the contract they willingly entered into, especially where such contract is reduced into writing.
He further argued that, where the terms of contract between parties are clear and unambiguous, the court in resolving the dispute between the parties, ought not to look outside the express terms of the contract, rather the court must confine itself to the express terms under the contract.
