{"id":63534,"date":"2025-03-30T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63534"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:50:17","slug":"tinubu-joins-abuja-muslims-for-eid-prayer-hosts-wike-others-for-sallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/30\/tinubu-joins-abuja-muslims-for-eid-prayer-hosts-wike-others-for-sallah\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Joins Abuja Muslims for Eid Prayer, Hosts Wike, Others for Sallah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu on Sunday joined Muslim faithful at the National Eid Prayer Ground in Abuja to observe Eid-el-Fitr prayers, marking the end of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The President arrived before 9 am and was warmly received by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, and other top officials.<\/p>\n<p>The prayers, attended by a large congregation, highlighted the significance of Eid-el-Fitr as a time for reflection, charity, and unity.<\/p>\n<p>Following the prayers, President Tinubu hosted a delegation led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, at the Presidential Banquet Hall for Sallah homage.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering included lawmakers, FCT area council chairpersons, traditional rulers, and religious leaders from both the Christian and Muslim communities.<\/p>\n<p>Opening prayers were offered by Dr Timothy Amazon, Chairman of the FCT Christian Association of Nigeria, and Prof. SAS Galadanci, Murshid of the National Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Wike delivered the opening remarks before guests presented greeting cards to the President.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations underscored the spirit of togetherness, with Tinubu reaffirming his commitment to national unity and religious harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 President Bola Tinubu on Sunday joined Muslim faithful at the National Eid Prayer Ground in Abuja to observe Eid-el-Fitr prayers, marking the end of Ramadan. The President arrived before 9 am and was warmly received by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63534","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\/63534","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=63534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63536,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63534\/revisions\/63536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}