{"id":16997,"date":"2019-04-17T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16997"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:55:17","slug":"easter-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16997","title":{"rendered":"Easter: FG declares Friday, Monday, Public Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22, Public Holidays to mark the 2019 Easter celebration.<br \/>\nMr Georgina Ehuriah, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, announced the holiday in a statement quoting the minister on Wednesday in Abuja.<br \/>\nThe Minister of Interior, Lt.- Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, enjoined all Christians to emulate the exemplary attributes of Jesus Christ amongst which are tolerance, love and peaceful co-existence.<br \/>\nHe urged all Nigerians home and abroad to use the occasion to pray for the peace, unity and progress of our great country,\u00a0 irrespective of diversity in religious beliefs.<br \/>\nDambazau wished \u00a0all Nigerians a happy and peaceful Easter celebration.<br \/>\nHe further called on them to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in its determination to take the country to the next level.(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22, Public Holidays to mark the 2019 Easter celebration. Mr Georgina Ehuriah, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, announced the holiday in a statement quoting the minister on Wednesday in Abuja. The Minister of Interior, Lt.- Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, who made the declaration on behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}