I started driving trucks in 1978.
I will stop five years from now. I will not drive again.
If I'm still alive, I will stop.
I will retire myself from the job.
You can get problems with the highway robbers, the gunmen.
It was around four o'clock, early in the morning,
when we were coming from Lagos.
On approaching there, we just saw the gunmen.
They blocked the road, and nowhere to go with our vehicle.
They started shooting, yes.
When they started shooting, we parked the vehicle and ran inside the bush.
Highway robbers, bad roads and daily traffic accidents
are an everyday reality for Nigerian truck driver Matthew Ude.
Matthew is currently working for one of the world's biggest
land reclamation projects, the Eko Atlantic.
A project that started with the intention of protecting
the Victoria Island's eroding shoreline.
Soon, the project grew, resulting in the building
of a ten-square-kilometre artificial peninsula
that will lay the foundations for a new business and residential district
in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.
Every day, as many as 200 trucks travel from the different stone quarries
to contribute to the eight-kilometre protective stone wall
that separates Eko Atlantic from the sea.
We are heading to the jungle.
We are going to carry stone from Ibadan to Lagos.
This stone is being used for the embankment of the ocean.
Every day, we make one trip.
This vehicle gives me a lot of confidence.
I have full confidence in the vehicle when I'm driving.
No scratch my moto!
I was telling him that he should not scratch my vehicle.
He's trying to scratch my vehicle.
You see the accident? Trailer fell down with container.
Trailer with container fell down.
Some drivers don't take precautions.
When you see that the road is bad, you have to go very gently.
We are now inside Lagos, Victoria Island.
We are now heading to the beach.
Around half of the protective wall is complete,
and it's estimated that the peninsula will be finished in 2017.
Matthew's work in building the future goes on.
Tonight, just like six other nights a week, he will sleep in his FMX truck,
to be ready at four in the morning,
when the first trucks head back to the quarries.
The driving work that I'm into has helped me a lot to become a man,
and to solve my problems.
I have achieved many things in driving.
I train my children, I build my house...
So, what else do I need in life?