{"id":1210,"date":"2023-04-05T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:09:33","slug":"easter-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/easter-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter: FG declares Friday, Monday public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Easter celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness, forgiveness, kindness, love, peace and patience which were attributes and practices of Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His ministry on the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The minister called on Christians and all Nigerians to use the occasion of this year\u2019s Easter celebration to pray for an end to the security challenges in parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aregbesola said \u201cSecurity is everybody\u2019s business. I, therefore, urge Nigerians and foreigners resident in our country to display a high sense of citizenship and public spiritedness by supporting the efforts of all security agencies in bringing peace and security of lives and property of the citizenry\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The minister assured that the Federal Government is doing all that is necessary to ensure a peaceful transition of government following the peaceful conduct of elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While wishing Christians at home and in the Diaspora a happy and peaceful Easter celebration, he also enjoins them to love their neighbours through acts of kindness and generosity of spirit, with the well-to-do sharing their substance with the less privileged around them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aregbesola once more assures Nigerians that the nation is persistently on the path to greatness and urges all to positively deploy their creative energy for the full realisation of the coming prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Easter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}