{"id":42001,"date":"2021-04-29T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=42001"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:08:49","slug":"nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Govt declares Monday May 3 public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday May 3, as public holiday to mark the 2021 International Workers\u2019 Day Celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola congratulated Nigerian workers for witnessing this year\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore, the minister hailed civil servants for their patience, understanding and support.<\/p>\n<p>Aregbesola commended them for driving the policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration \u201cin its determination to move the country to the next level of socio-economic development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The minister called for more dedication and patriotism, assuring that the current challenges will soon be over.<\/p>\n<p>Aregbesola stresses that government is putting all strategies in place to curb the insecurity in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on the Labour force and all patriotic citizens to be fully committed to the task of putting insecurity to a permanent end as much as possible,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday May 3, as public holiday to mark the 2021 International Workers\u2019 Day Celebration. Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola congratulated Nigerian workers for witnessing this year\u2019s celebration. In a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore, the minister hailed civil servants for their patience, understanding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4013,254],"class_list":["post-42001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-international-workers-day-2021","tag-nigeria"],"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>Nigeria Govt declares Monday May 3 public holiday - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday May 3, as public holiday to mark the 2021 International Workers\u2019 D ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria Govt declares Monday May 3 public holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Monday May 3, as public holiday to mark the 2021 International Workers\u2019 D ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-29T20:00:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-608b042544a26.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=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria Govt declares Monday May 3 public holiday\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-29T20:00:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\"},\"wordCount\":153,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-608b042544a26.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"International Workers' Day 2021\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-govt-declares-monday-may-3-public-holiday\",\"name\":\"Nigeria Govt declares Monday May 3 public holiday - 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