Workers wait for the launch of the first British built Honda Jazz family supermini to leave the production line at the Honda car plant in Swindon, western England. Max NASH / AFP Honda announced Tuesday it would shut a major plant in Britain, putting 3,500 jobs at risk as the auto manufacturer became the latest Japanese firm to downsize operations as Brexit looms. The factory in Swindon, southwest England, is Honda’s only EU plant and has produced the manufacturer’s “Civic” model for more than 24 years, with 150,000 units rolling off the line annually. The plant will shut in 2021, Honda announced, “at the end of the current model’s production lifecycle”. The decision “has not been taken lightly and we deeply regret how unsettling today’s announcement will be for our people,” said Katsushi Inoue, chief officer for European regional operations, in a statement. The firm blamed “unprecedented changes in the global automotive industry” for the decision but it comes amid investme...

A foreign relations group in Nigeria has urged the United Kingdom and the United States to face their own democratic challenges rather than focusing on Nigeria election . Trump and May The Global Relations Policy Forum (GRPF) says it is completely ridiculous for the UK and US to tell Nigeria how to run its own election when they are both the laughing stock of the world. Sadiq Adamu, President of GRPF, said they should first remove the beam out of their own eyes, and then they can see clearly to remove the speck out of Nigeria’s eye. “The Russia Collusion has plagued the United States democracy since its 2016 election. Globally, the world is watching daily as allegations and evidences of collusion unravels in the ‘almighty’ United States. “The Special Counsel Robert Meuller has shown us that there was indeed collusion. So if the US cannot conduct a free and fair election, why should they be the model for any country across the world?” Adamu argued that the US has no lo...

FRIENDS of Atiku, UK Chapter have requested Nigerians to vote Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential candidate as President on Saturday. Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi shut Enugu, Ebonyi The group in a joint communiqué by the UK and Edo state coordinators, Mr Iyore Ugiagbe and Dr Isaiah Osifo respectively, after a solidarity conference in London, said, “We enjoin the Nigerian electorate to vote en masse for His Excellency Atiku Abubakar as President in the 2019 election.” “We call on the government of Nigeria to safeguard the lives of its citizenry and to ensure the conduct of a safe, free and fair election in the 2019 general elections.” “We urge the respective law enforcement agencies in Nigeria to disallow the evil practice of vote buying and any other electoral malpractices during the elections.” In his keynote address, Dr. Osifo dismissed the All Progressives Congress, APC claim of financial prudence, saying national budget and public exp...