Nigerian media reported that workers of Nigeria’s Delta Steel Company has shut down the company and barricaded major entry points. Top members of the management team and other employees were turned back from the gates.

As per report “The workers were protesting against alleged moves by the management to prevent them from holding elections to elect new leaders for the labour unions in the company. Workers were worried that the management continued to support the appointment of caretaker committees to pilot the affairs of the DSC’s chapters of the Iron & Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Steel Workers Union of Nigeria.”