{"id":25346,"date":"2020-05-21T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25346"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:08:17","slug":"fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday","title":{"rendered":"FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday a public holiday in Nigeria to mark the Eid-al Fitr celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Mohammed Manga, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Aregbesola felicitated with all Muslim faithful for the successful completion of the Ramadan fast.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister urged the Muslim faithful to replicate the life of kindness, love, tolerance, peace and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also lamented the spate of ethnic conflicts that have resurfaced in some parts of Northern Nigeria in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to Nigerians to see themselves as a single entity and learn to tolerate one another despite ethnic and religious differences.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister further urged Muslims to adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines and health regulations as they celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday a public holiday in Nigeria to mark the Eid-al Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Mohammed Manga, on Thursday. Aregbesola felicitated with all Muslim faithful for the successful completion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,29],"tags":[1451,1001],"class_list":["post-25346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","tag-covid-19","tag-federal-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holiday - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday a public holiday in Nigeria to mark the Eid-al Fitr celebration.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday a public holiday in Nigeria to mark the Eid-al Fitr celebration.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-21T19:08:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/buhari-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"941\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holiday\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-21T19:08:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\"},\"wordCount\":154,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/buhari-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19.\",\"Federal Government\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fg-declares-monday-tuesday-public-holiday\",\"name\":\"FG declares Monday, Tuesday public holiday - 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