The national Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW)is a Nigerian organisation that fulfills functions of a public transport company, street gang, and a transport worker's union. It was founded on 6 October 1957.

The NURTW raises money through several methods. The largest of these methods is charging fees - of approximately 20 Nigerian Naira at illegal checkpoints, and from local shop owners.

In 2013, a large number of the NURTW have been arrested after Lagos State government crackdown on these unregulated fees, after the government embarked on a plan to stop people from collecting dues outside motor parks. These people are known as agberos.

The headquarter of the NURTW is located on Sapele Street, Garki, Abuja. The NURTW has an official Facebook page.
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It has now become an accepted thing to see a full grown able man collecting money by force (owo booking,owo load,owo chiarman,owo awon boys etc) under the guise of National Union of road Transport Workers (NURTW) from operators of individually owned public vehicles and motor bikes. if i may ask,what is this forcefully generated money used for by this organization? 'the road transport worker's do not benefit in any form from this revenue,it gives room for increment in transport fare and our government is keeping there arms crossed looking at this menace to society,what can we even say, when it is this same set of people they use while campaigning for elections and other ungodly vices they commit all in the name of leadership.

I will really like if the government of our beloved country to look into the functioning of this forcefully generated revenue collected by men of the said organization as it causes so much problems on our roads, sometimes, the (agbero) as they are fondly called would delay the movement of the vehicle because of the money he wants to collect, so many times they will forcefully remove items like; fuel tank cover, engine cover, wiper etc. there are times when the (agbero) would fight the conductor so as to get money. I believe that the governor or government officials would have at one time or the other seen or heard about this continuing incidence and nothing has so far been done.

I want to plead to the governor to please find a long lasting solution to the operations of this organization as they even assassinate themselves using various fetish means to overthrow power which causes a break down in transport and orderliness.
https://www.nairaland.com/203700/what-main-objective-nurtw-roads

At least 27 cars and 17 trucks have been vandalised by thugs suspected to be members of the National Union of Road Transport Works (NURTW) in a clash at the Express Quarry Nigeria Limited, Kilometre 15, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ekefa Village in Ibadan.

The problem started from the collection of N2,500 from drivers for each load of granite by NURTW members.

The truck drivers, it was gathered, wanted to pay once in a day, saying the N2,500 for each load of granites was exploitative.

Guns, cutlasses, broken bottles, granite and clubs were said to have been used freely during the melee.

A truckload of granite, a driver said,costs about N130,000.

The fracas, which reportedly started at 9:15am, left many people injured. Sources said nobody died though many were injured. Many of the workers and quarry operators were said to have fled into the bush and the canal near the site.

The pandemonium also caused a gridlock on the expressway. Passengers were said to have fled inside the bush. The Commissioner of Police, Kola Sodipo, visited the scene of the incident yesterday.

He urged the stakeholders to maintain peace, saying the police had started working and justice would be served.

At the site yesterday, the divisional officer (DPO), Toll Gate Divisional Headquarters, Ibadan, Olufemi Awoyale, anti-riot policemen, two armoured personnel carriers, six hilux vehicles and one Black Maria were sighted.

The incident, it was gathered, had triggered a protest from members of the Oluyole Ibadan Granites Sellers and Hauler Association, truck owners and drivers, who demanded that they did not want NURTW office at the quarry any longer.

Some NURTW executive members placated the protesters with a promise that a delegation would visit the quarry to resolve the matter.It was gathered that Awoyale invited five representatives of the warring factions for a meeting. The meeting was reportedly in progress when the hoodlums stormed the quarry.

Policemen from Toll Gate were said to have responded swiftly and shot into the air to scare the troublemakers.When the matter got out of hand, the policemen called for reinforcement. The arrival of the mobile policemen was said to have restored peace to the quarry.

A source said: said: “Two customers who came to pay for granites were attacked. They had not paid before the problem broke out. The thugs collected their money.“The issue is that we don’t want NURTW office in this place again. This is an office and we have our associations here, which are subsidiaries of NURTW.

“The association will control its members and we will collect levies and remit the statutory ones to the NURTW state secretariat.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/nurtw-thugs-clash-in-ibadan/

My problem is what are the functions of NURTW ,and where does the the money they collected go to.
I think NURTW should be scrapped.

Op, may you be blessed beyond measures. As a trransporter myself, it always pains me that people are completely disillussioned to the unprogressive forces(nurtw) that plagues taxi drivers. But then, worse is that the billions of naira collected weekly only serve individual pockets in government. That is why they will never act against them. The transport sector has been short changing this country of trillions of naira every month...but them no want people know say money dey dia.

you people are encroaching on jagaban yard