{"id":12817,"date":"2023-03-22T22:09:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2023-03-22T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T22:09:35","slug":"moon-sighted-as-sultan-confirms-thursday-first-day-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12817","title":{"rendered":"Moon Sighted As Sultan Confirms Thursday First Day Of Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, has confirmed Thursday (tomorrow) first day of Ramadan in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The President General, Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs stated this in a broadcast at his palace in Sokoto on Wednesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said, \u201cToday Wednesday, the 29th Day of Sha\u2019aban 1444 after Hijra of our Noble Prophet Muhammad (SAW), which is equivalent to 22nd March, 2023, marks the end of Sha\u2019aban 1444 AH, as the reports of moon sighting were received from muslim leaders and other organisations across the country, which were duly verified and authenticated by the states and National Moon Sighting Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cConsequently, tomorrow Thursday, the 23rd March, 2023, becomes the first day of Ramadan, 1444 AH. We therefore call on the muslims Ummah to commence fasting accordingly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He therefore called on muslims Ummah across the country to use the month\u00a0 for extra prayers for the success of the new leaders emerged from the just-concluded general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa\u2019ad Abubakar, has confirmed Thursday (tomorrow) first day of Ramadan in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6686,6631,668],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-moon","tag-ramadan-2023","tag-sultan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12819,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/12819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}