Nigeria Civil Service Union

The Nigeria Civil Service Union is a trade union representing workers in the Nigerian Civil Service.
The union was founded in 1978, when the government of Nigeria merged the following trade unions:

Nigerian Civil Service Union
Ministry of Defence Civil Employees' Union
East-Central State Messengers' and Allied Workers' Union
Government Coastal Agency Workers' Union
Eastern Nigeria Internal Revenue Staff Association
Eastern Government Stores Workers' Union
Co-operative Inspectors' Union of Eastern Nigeria
Eastern Nigeria Bailiffs' Union
Association of Federal Produce Officers of Nigeria
Union of Telephone Operators' Attendants ECS
Civil Service Technical Workers' Union
Civil Service Technical Workers' Union of Nigeria
Treasury Workers' Union of Eastern Nigeria
South-Eastern State Treasury Staff Association
North-Central State Civil Service Union
Northern States Civil Service Union
North-Eastern State Treasury Staff Union
Federal Statistics Northern States Workers' Union
Kano State Junior Civil Servants' Association
Nigerian Federal Office of Statistics Workers' Union
South-Eastern State Ministry of Education, Non-Teaching Staff and Allied Workers' Union
Union of Western Nigeria Co-operative Inspectors

The union was a founding affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress. By 1988, it had 205,397 members, but by 2005, this had fallen to 100,000. It has had a long-running demarcation dispute with the Association of Senior [Civil Servants of Nigeria].