{"id":6634,"date":"2024-04-07T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2024-04-07T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:33:20","slug":"fg-declares-tuesday-wednesday-as-public-holidays-for-eid-el-fitr-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/fg-declares-tuesday-wednesday-as-public-holidays-for-eid-el-fitr-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Declares Tuesday, Wednesday As Public Holidays For Eid-el-Fitr Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The federal government has declared Tuesday and Wednesday as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Eid-el-Fitr celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, minister of interior, announced the public holidays in a congratulatory message to the Islamic faithful in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Eid-el-Fitr festival is celebrated by Muslims worldwide after observing Ramadan fasting for 29 or 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The minister congratulated all Muslims in the country for the successful completion of the fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He called on faithful to imbibe and practice the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, good neighbourliness, and compassion as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe Minister wishes all Muslim Ummah a happy Eid-el-Fitr celebration and prays that the peace, blessings and favour of Allah be with everyone and our Great Nation,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Tunji-Ojo urged Nigerians to continue in the spirit of unity to improve and achieve peace and oneness in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has declared Tuesday and Wednesday as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Eid-el-Fitr celebration. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6634","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\/6634","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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}