{"id":25436,"date":"2020-05-23T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25436"},"modified":"2020-05-23T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:56:01","slug":"fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday","title":{"rendered":"Fasting to continue on Saturday, Eid-el-Fitr holds Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said that Ramadan fasting this year will end this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This means the 2020 Eid-el-fitr will hold on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The NSCIA\u2019s national moon sighting committee disclosed this in a tweet on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no positive sighting report of the Shawwal crescent in Nigeria, tomorrow is 30th Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn official statement from the Sultanate will be released shortly,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have also said Eid will begin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday will be the last day of the sacred holy month of Ramadan and Eid-el-Fitr will take place on Sunday,\u201d the royal court told Press Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said that Ramadan fasting this year will end this Saturday. This means the 2020 Eid-el-fitr will hold on Sunday. The NSCIA\u2019s national moon sighting committee disclosed this in a tweet on Friday night. \u201cThere was no positive sighting report of the Shawwal crescent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1503,800],"class_list":["post-25436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigerian-supreme-council","tag-nscia"],"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>Fasting to continue on Saturday, Eid-el-Fitr holds Sunday - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said that Ramadan fasting this year will end this Saturday.This means the\" \/>\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\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fasting to continue on Saturday, Eid-el-Fitr holds Sunday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said that Ramadan fasting this year will end this Saturday.This means the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-23T14:56:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/ramadan-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"445\" \/>\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\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Fasting to continue on Saturday, Eid-el-Fitr holds Sunday\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-23T14:56:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/ramadan-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigerian Supreme Council\",\"NSCIA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/fasting-to-continue-on-saturday-eid-el-fitr-holds-sunday\",\"name\":\"Fasting to continue on Saturday, Eid-el-Fitr holds Sunday - 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