{"id":18306,"date":"2024-04-07T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2024-04-07T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:32:11","slug":"fg-declares-tuesday-wednesday-as-public-holidays-for-eid-el-fitr-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18306","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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8721,200,8720,8718,8719],"class_list":["post-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eid-el-fitr-celebration","tag-fg","tag-public-holidays","tag-tuesday","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306"}],"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=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}