{"id":67143,"date":"2025-06-02T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67143"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:15:22","slug":"eid-ul-adha-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/eid-ul-adha-fg-declares-friday-monday-public-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid-ul-Adha: FG Declares Friday, Monday Public Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 6, and Monday, June 9, 2025, as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Eid-ul-Adha celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the announcement on Monday in a statement issued by the ministry\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Magdalene Ajani.<\/p>\n<p>He congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and across the world, urging them to reflect on the values of sacrifice, obedience, and faith as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim (Peace be upon Him).<\/p>\n<p>Tunji-Ojo called on Nigerians to use the period to pray for peace, unity, and national progress.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that ongoing reforms under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda are designed to reposition the country for greatness.<\/p>\n<p>The minister further appealed to citizens to support government efforts to restore Nigeria\u2019s lost glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 6, and Monday, June 9, 2025, as public holidays to mark this year\u2019s Eid-ul-Adha celebration. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the announcement on Monday in a statement issued by the ministry\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Magdalene Ajani. He congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67143","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67144,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67143\/revisions\/67144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}