{"id":22353,"date":"2019-11-07T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22353"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:12:37","slug":"monday-is-public-holiday-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22353","title":{"rendered":"Monday is public holiday, FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Doris Esa<\/strong> (NAN)<br \/>\nThe Federal Government has declared Monday as Public Holiday to mark the 2019 Eid-ul-Mawlud in commemoration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad.<br \/>\nMr Mohammed Manga, Director Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Interior, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.<br \/>\nHe said the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, congratulated the Muslim faithful on the occasion and enjoined them to live within the virtues and teachings of the Prophet.<br \/>\nHe said imbibing the Prophet\u2019s virtues of love, courage and perseverance would guarantee peace and security in the country.<br \/>\nAregbesola expressed confidence that the challenges confronting Nigeria at the moment would soon be over; and therefore called on Nigerians to remain focused and determined.<br \/>\nHe gave the assurance that with the immense potentials the country is endowed with; coupled with its human and natural resources, Nigeria will sooner than later join the league of developed nations.<br \/>\n\u201cWith love, commitment, self-sacrifice, patience and patriotism, we will certainly, build a greater Nigeria,\u201d Aregbesola said.<br \/>\nThe Minister restated Government\u2019s desire to ensure a peaceful and secure environment for all Nigerians.<br \/>\nBy <strong>www.nan.ng<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doris Esa (NAN) The Federal Government has declared Monday as Public Holiday to mark the 2019 Eid-ul-Mawlud in commemoration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Mr Mohammed Manga, Director Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Interior, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the Minister of [&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":[152],"class_list":["post-22353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-public-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353","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=22353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}