{"id":93599,"date":"2025-04-15T23:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93599"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:10:57","slug":"fg-declares-friday-monday-are-public-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=93599","title":{"rendered":"FG declares Friday &#038; Monday as public holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Federal Government has declared April 18th and 21st as public holidays to enable Christians celebrate Easter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">This is contained in a statement by the Ministry of Interior\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Mrs Magdalene Ajani, on Tuesday in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Ajani said that the public holidays were to mark the celebrations of Good Friday and Easter Monday, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">She acknowledged that the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo extended his heartfelt congratulations to Christians across the country on the joyous festivities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Tunji-Ojo\u00a0\u00a0emphasised the importance of embodying the virtues of the sacrifice and love displayed by Jesus Christ, having to die for the redemption of man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He called on Nigerians to use the holiday period to pray for the peace, unity, and stability of the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The minister further reassured citizens of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s unwavering commitment to the Renewed Hope Agenda, which seeks to foster national growth and development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Tunji-Ojo encouraged Nigerians to extend love and goodwill to their neighbours through acts of kindness and generosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The Minister wished all Christians a blissful Easter celebration as he extended warm holiday greetings to all citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u25cf By <strong>NAN<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared April 18th and 21st as public holidays to enable Christians celebrate Easter. This is contained in a statement by the Ministry of Interior\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Mrs Magdalene Ajani, on Tuesday in Abuja. Ajani said that the public holidays were to mark the celebrations of Good Friday and Easter Monday, respectively. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":93600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5809,7],"tags":[5719,550,2396],"class_list":["post-93599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebration","category-news","tag-friday","tag-holidays","tag-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93599","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=93599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}