The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa\u2019ad Abukakar III, has announced that the Muslim\u2019s Eid-el-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, holds on Monday in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The National Moonsighting Committee Nigeria made this known via its Twitter handle, @moonsightingng, on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHis Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto has declared Monday 2nd of May as the first day of Shawwal.<\/span><\/p>\n No positive sighting claims were received from members of the National moonsighting committee and other Emirates. <\/span><\/p>\n The Sultanate will release an official statement shortly,\u201d it posted.<\/span><\/p>\n Also, Saudi Arabia announced that Eid-el-Fitr will begin on Monday in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMonday\u2026 is the first day of the blessed Eid al-Fitr for this year,\u201d with Sunday the last day of Ramadan, the official Saudi Press Agency said Saturday, citing a royal court statement.<\/span><\/p>\n Nigeria, including some Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain did not sight the moon, The PUNCH learnt.<\/span><\/p>\n The timing of Eid is determined by the sighting of the crescent moon, in accordance with the Muslim\u2019s Hijrah calendar.<\/span><\/p>\n The holiday is normally celebrated by families gathering together.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa\u2019ad Abukakar III, has announced that the Muslim\u2019s Eid-el-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, holds on Monday in Nigeria. The National Moonsighting Committee Nigeria made this known via its Twitter handle, @moonsightingng, on Saturday. \u201cHis Eminence the Sultan of Sokoto has declared Monday 2nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4576,92,477,668],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eid-el-fitr","tag-nigeria","tag-ramadan","tag-sultan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606"}],"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=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}