{"id":63509,"date":"2025-03-29T20:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63509"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:36:58","slug":"sultan-declares-sunday-march-30-as-eid-el-fitr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/29\/sultan-declares-sunday-march-30-as-eid-el-fitr-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Declares Sunday March 30 as Eid-el-Fitr Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa&#8217;ad Abubakar III, has announced Sunday March 30, 2025, as Eid-el-Fitr day, marking the conclusion of the sacred month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed the sighting of the Shawwal moon, which signifies the end of Ramadan and the beginning of a new Islamic month.<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan, who also serves as the President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, made the declaration after consulting with the National Moon Sighting Committee.<\/p>\n<p>With this confirmation, Muslims across Nigeria will observe Eid-el-Fitr on Sunday, engaging in prayers, festivities, and acts of charity to commemorate the completion of the fasting period.<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan called on Muslims to uphold the values of Ramadan, including compassion, generosity, and self-discipline, urging Nigerians to embrace peace, unity, and mutual respect during the celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa&#8217;ad Abubakar III, has announced Sunday March 30, 2025, as Eid-el-Fitr day, marking the conclusion of the sacred month of Ramadan. The announcement followed the sighting of the Shawwal moon, which signifies the end of Ramadan and the beginning of a new Islamic month. The Sultan, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63510,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63509\/revisions\/63510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}