{"id":30523,"date":"2020-09-29T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:42:44","slug":"we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday","title":{"rendered":"We are Africa\u2019s pride \u2013 FG declares October 1 holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afirca Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has declared Thursday, October 1, a public holiday to mark Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the announcement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is the leading black nation in the world, Africa\u2019s pride and beacon of hope, he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Aregbesola congratulated citizens on the Diamond Jubilee and assured of the government\u2019s commitment to socio-economic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur warmth, welcoming spirit and love as well as the abundant wealth inherent in our human capital and the richness of our land, makes Nigeria unarguably the leading black nation in the world and Africa\u2019s pride and beacon of hope if we can rally ourselves together to harness our potentials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA country of about 200 million people whose natural talent, grit and passion glitter like the precious diamond that we are. Nigerians are sparkling like diamonds in the pack, whether in Academia, Business, Innovation, Music, Movie, Entertainment, Fashion and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afirca Press-Nigeria: The federal government has declared Thursday, October 1, a public holiday to mark Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary celebration. Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the announcement on Tuesday. Nigeria is the leading black nation in the world, Africa\u2019s pride and beacon of hope, he declared. Aregbesola congratulated citizens on the Diamond Jubilee and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":30525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1001],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>We are Africa\u2019s pride \u2013 FG declares October 1 holiday - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Afirca Press-Nigeria:The federal government has declared Thursday, October 1, a public holiday to mark Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence\" \/>\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\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We are Africa\u2019s pride \u2013 FG declares October 1 holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Afirca Press-Nigeria:The federal government has declared Thursday, October 1, a public holiday to mark Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-29T16:42:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/09\/Rauf-Aregbesola.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"728\" \/>\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\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"We are Africa\u2019s pride \u2013 FG declares October 1 holiday\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-29T16:42:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/09\/Rauf-Aregbesola.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Federal Government\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-are-africas-pride-fg-declares-october-1-holiday\",\"name\":\"We are Africa\u2019s pride \u2013 FG declares October 1 holiday - 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