David Shadrach

Keystone pipeline spills 5,000 barrels of oil in US NEWS / US & CANADA WATCH 29:31 Standing Rock and the Battle Beyond Environment US & Canada Oil spill SIGN UP The spill comes in the midst of a growing protest movement against oil pipelines in the US and Canada [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] An investigation is ongoing after a leak in the major Keystone energy pipeline spilled nearly 795,000 litres of oil onto farmland in the US state of South Dakota. That is the equivalent of 5,000 barrels of oil, said TransCanada, the Calgary- based company that operates Keystone, a 4,324-km pipeline which carries crude oil from Canada through the US. The company said the pipeline was shut down on Thursday morning after the leak was detected near the town of Amherst, South Dakota. "Emergency response procedures were activated," TransCanada said in a statement. Advertisement "The safety of the public and environment are our top priorities and we will continue to provide updates as th...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will welcome Lebanese leader Saad Hariri "with the honours that are due a prime minister", adding that he expected him to return to Lebanon within days or weeks. Hariri and his family are expected to meet Macron on Saturday in France's capital, Paris, following an invitation by the French president earlier this week. Hariri, a Sunni Muslim politician and longtime ally of Saudi Arabia, suddenly announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister during a visit to Riyadh on November 4. He has been promising to return home soon but Saudi leaders say they fear for his safety if he does. Advertisement Lebanese officials have refused to accept Hariri's resignation, unless he delivers it on Lebanese soil, and have alleged that he is being held hostage by authorities in Saudi Arabia. "I will ... welcome Prime Minister Hariri with the honours that are due to a prime minister, indeed resigned, but whose resignation hasn...

Mass Harare rally planned as pressure mounts on Mugabe NEWS / ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe's street starts discussing life after Mugabe OPINION Mugabe: Between the wife and the loyal lieutenant by Alex Magaisa Africa Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe Politics SIGN UP Harare, Zimbabwe - Pressure is mounting on Robert Mugabe to step down as Zimbabwe's president, as efforts to force the veteran leader to resign after nearly four decades in office gain traction. Zimbabwe has been in political turmoil since the early hours of Wednesday, when the country's armed forces seized power and placed Mugabe under house arrest. The embattled 93-year-old leader so far appears resistant to demands to step down. However, he is increasingly running out of options as even some of his closest allies, including top officials within his ruling ZANU-PF party, look determined to remove him from power. Issuing a "stark warning", Zimbabwe's influential war veterans on Friday said Mugabe, the patron of their ...

EFCC detains ex-SGF, Anyim, exposes how he used personal firms to siphon N13b Ecological fund ON NOVEMBER 17, 20177:21 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS …questions him on what he used N520m from Dasuki on 2015 poll eve By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, yesterday, detailed how former Secretary to the Federal Government, Senator Ayim Pius Anyim, used firms in which he had interest to award contracts to the tune of N13 billion from the Ecological Fund Account domiciled in his office. The anti-graft agency, which arrested Anyim, a former Senate President, said its operatives were also questioning the Ebonyi politician on what he collected the sum of N520 million from the Office of the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, on the eve of the 2015 Presidential election, in which his party, lost. A top source in EFCC, who confirmed Anyim’s arrest to Saturday Vanguard, said that the ex-government scribe, was also grilled on false asset declaration to t...

Breaking: Mugabe attends public function after coup Breaking: Mugabe attends public function after coup ON NOVEMBER 17, 20171:54 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at a university graduation ceremony in the capital on Friday, his first public appearance since a military seizure of power that political sources say is aimed at ending his 37 years in office. Wearing a blue and yellow academic gown and mortar board hat, the 93-year-old sat in large wooden chair at the front the hall. Mugabe He was greeted by ululations from the crowd as he declared the ceremony open. Earlier, leaders of Mugabe’s party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit. The self-styled grand old man of African politics, the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence in 1980, insists he is still in charge. But the source, a senior member of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, made clear the party wanted him gone. “If he becomes stu...