The National Union of Road Transport Workers is an independent Nigerian trade union that serves the interests of transport workers in the road transport sector, by calling for collective obtaining and pushing for social stability for all workers in the transport sector as defined in its constitution.
The union was founded in 1978, when the government of Nigeria merged the following unions:
Amalgamated Union of Lagos Municipal Bus Workers Ance Transport Service Workers' Union Arab Trans Workers' Union Benson Transport Workers' Union Cross River State Transport and Allied Workers' Union H. Safieddine Transport Limited Workers' Union Hope Rising Drivers' Union Ikot Ekpene Divisional Transport Workers' Union Jam Iyyan Alhin Diraibobiw Arewa Northern Transport Workers' Union Mid-West Line and Armels Transport Workers' Union M/S Fawaz (Nigeria) Limited and Allied Workers' Union Rivers State Transport Corporation and Allied Workers' Union Tractors Drivers' Union Trans Continental (Nigeria) Ltd. Workers' Union
The union affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress. By 1988, it had 30,000 members, and by 2005, this had grown to 96,000.
The union has been known for controversial practices including corruption, extortion, and nepotism, exposed by the American-British journalist Louis Theroux in his 2010 documentary film.
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