Trump has immunity – US Supreme Court rules
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The United States, US, Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former President, Donald Trump, has immunity from prosecution for certain actions taken in office.
This was as the Supreme Court threw out a judicial decision rejecting Trump’s bid to shield himself from criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss.
Chief Justice John Roberts, announced the landmark decision on behalf of the court’s six-justice conservative majority.
Roberts held: “We conclude that under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former President, have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office.
Renowned Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, dies at 88
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Albanians mourned Ismail Kadare, their “greatest cultural monument”, Monday after the acclaimed novelist – tipped several times for the Nobel Literature prize – died of a heart attack at a Tirana hospital aged 88.
Prime Minister Edi Rama led the tributes with the president of neighbouring Kosovo Vjosa Osmani hailing Kadare’s “remarkable contribution to Albanian and world literature.”
Through the epic sweep of novels like “Broken April” and “The General of the Dead Army”, the writer used metaphor and quiet sarcasm to chronicle the grotesque fate of his country and its people under the paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
Despite being branded a traitor by Albania’s communist leaders when he defected to France in 1990, Kadare was accused by some of enjoying a privileged position under Hoxha, who cut the Balkan country off from the rest of the world.
Over 85% have less than N1.1m purchasing power -Minister
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The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, on Monday, lamented that 80 per cent of Nigerians cannot afford housing due to financial constraints.
This, Dangiwa noted accounted for the major causes of the housing deficit in the country.
The minister stated this in his keynote address at the opening of the maiden Kaduna International Housing Exhibition, held at Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Hall, Kaduna.
He noted that the major issue governments at all levels have to address in their desire to deliver sustainability to the citizens is the issue of affordability.
FCT: Wike fumes over allocation of land meant for bus terminal to politician
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Monday fumed over the allocation of land meant for a bus terminal in the Central Business District, Abuja.
Wike, who made the complaint at the inauguration of the construction of Mabushi Bus Terminal, Phase I, in Abuja, described the action as a gross distortion of the Abuja Master Plan.
He explained that the FCT Administration decided to build three terminals, one each in the Central Business District, Mabushi and Kugbo, to ensure a secure and convenient travel experience for commuters in the territory.
He, however, said that the land designated for the bus terminal in the Central Business District, where a train track was expected to pass through, had been allocated to somebody.