{"id":5022,"date":"2019-02-21T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:05:25","slug":"buhari-declares-friday-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-declares-friday-public-holiday","title":{"rendered":"Buhari declares Friday public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Friday, Public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmed on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Friday was declared work free day to enable Nigerians prepare for the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly election.<\/p>\n<p>The terse statement reads, \u201cGOOD IDEA: The Federal Government has declared Friday as Workfree Day to enable Nigerians prepare for the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly Elections on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Friday, Public holiday. This was disclosed by Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmed on Twitter. According to him, Friday was declared work free day to enable Nigerians prepare for the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly election. The terse statement reads, \u201cGOOD IDEA: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,28],"tags":[97,246,38,204,235],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-buhari","tag-community","tag-election","tag-government","tag-president"],"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>Buhari declares Friday public holiday - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/buhari-declares-friday-public-holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari declares Friday public holiday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Friday, Public holiday. 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