Majority of auto industry back staying in EU

The majority of SMMT members, 59 per cent, believe Brexit would have a negative impact on their businesses in the medium to long term, with 18 per cent uncertain about the consequences. Fears over losing business to EU rivals and future investment being diverted to the Continent were among the reasons given by those who predicted there would be a negative effect if the UK votes to leave at the referendum.

Sajid Javid: I understand 'pointless petty' rules

Business Secretary Sajid Javid is speaking now at the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference. Mr Javid says that the Government's one in one out rule which sees one piece of red tape scrapped for every new piece of legislation will now be a one in three out rule, reports Kate McCann. He says there is a lot of red tape in local government so he is launching a review of how councils regulate small companies. "I grew up above the family business.

Businesses must tear off this EU straitjacket

Priti Patel, the employment minister campaigning for Brexit, has written a piece in The Times today, arguing that European rules are suffocating the life out of small and medium-sized companies in Britain "A vote to leave is not "a leap in the dark" — it is a leap from a ship heading, like the Titanic, towards a huge iceberg," she says.

EU referendum: France issues Calais migrant crisis warning over Brexit - live

Migrants and refugees would not be stopped from crossing the Channel if Britain opts to leave Europe, French economy minister says

Soldiers brutalise protesting women in Edo, Delta states

Reports say some soldiers, numbering about 10, have used their boots on hundreds of women protesting at Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community between Edo and Delta states. According to source, the protest was said to have been over a land which had been in dispute for years between both states.

LAWMAKERS MAKE CASE FOR THE SECURITY OF THE GIRL CHILD IN NIGERIA

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have frowned at the senseless kidnapping of three female students from Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School, a private school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

Senate Passes Motions on Patronizing Nigerian Goods & Non-Payment of Allowances to Nigerian Students Abroad

The Senate on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 debated and passed two Motions. The Motion passed were on the “Need for patronization of made in Nigeria Goods in Nigeria”, sponsored by Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South) and “Non-payment of Allowances to Nigerian students studying Abroad”, sponsored by Sen. David Umaru (Niger East) and seven others. Sen. Abaribe led the debate on the first Motion by recalling in the 1960s up to 1970s, when the Nigerian economy ran on ‘made in Nigeria’ exports.