{"id":1332,"date":"2023-04-19T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:47:30","slug":"eid-el-fitr-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/eid-el-fitr-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid el-Fitr: FG declares Friday, Monday public holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 21 and Monday, April 24, 2023, as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Eid\u00a0el-Fitr celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, according to a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore, obtained on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He congratulated all Muslims for the successful completion of the holy month of Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ogbeni Aregbesola called on all Muslims to imbibe and practise the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, self-denial, sacrifice and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe self-restraint, self-denial, sacrifice and deep spiritual consciousness that accompanied the fasting period should not end but be maintained and improved upon, in order to be a better person and true worshipper,\u201d the minister advised all Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aregbesola assured that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was fully committed to a peaceful transition of government following successful elections. He assured of the government\u2019s commitment to the provision of security for the life and property of every citizen and foreigner in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The minister commended all security agencies for the successes recorded in the fight against criminals across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He urged Nigerians to be part of the nation\u2019s security architecture by being vigilant and reporting suspicious individuals and activities to law enforcement agencies nearest to them, noting that security is everybody\u2019s responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He admonished Nigerians also to report suspicious activities and persons to the N-Alert application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aregbesola wished all Muslims a happy Eid il-Fitr celebration and prayed \u201cthat the peace, blessings and favour of Allah be with you all. Ameen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 21 and Monday, April 24, 2023, as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}