Newspaper review: Giving land for ranching better than death - Presidency

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The newspaper review for Wednesday, July, 4, leads with a report in which the presidency while speaking on farmers/herders crises was quoted to have said giving land for ranching is better than being killed among other top stories.

Vanguard reports that the presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts.

Special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in response to a question on ancestral attachments to land said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?

The exhortation from the presidency came on a day speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said that history would be harsh on the present administration if it failed to stop the mass killing of innocent Nigerians.

Vanguard newspaper for Wednesday, July 4. Photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.

This Day reports that apparently unable to deal with the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party’s (nPDP) slow pace of talks with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other smaller political parties in forming a coalition against the All Progressives Congress (APC), another group known as ‘Reformed APC’ has emerged from the aggrieved group within the ruling APC.

Led by former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and other top members of the APC, especially at the National Assembly, the new group were formally announce its departure from the ruling party by Friday.

A member of the group in Abuja said: “It appears Baraje and Senate President Bukola Saraki and their group are tied down by their endless discussion with APC.’’

This Day newspaper for Wednesday, July 4. Photo credit: snapshot from NAIJ.com.

The Nation reports that the police have launched a manhunt for gunmen who shot dead seven policemen on Monday night at a checkpoint in Galadimawa, Abuja.

Galadimawa is on the way to Kubwa in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The “dare devil men of the underworld” outgunned a police patrol team at a spot close to the gate of the Africa Science and Technology University, it was learnt yesterday.

The policemen were there on a stop-and-search duty.

The police did not state the number of the policemen in the patrol team but said not all of them were killed.

A policeman and some members of the public were said to have been injured.