{"id":73747,"date":"2025-08-20T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73747"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:05:17","slug":"isese-day-ifa-council-urges-tinubu-to-declare-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/isese-day-ifa-council-urges-tinubu-to-declare-national-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Isese Day: Ifa Council Urges Tinubu to Declare National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to declare August 20 as a national public holiday in honour of Isese Day.<\/p>\n<p>ICIR President, Fayemi Fakayode, made the call in Ibadan on Wednesday during the 2025 Isese Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>While states including Oyo, Lagos, Ogun, and Osun already recognise the day, Fakayode urged governors of Ekiti, Ondo, Kwara, Kogi, Edo, and Delta to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>He said national recognition would end what he described as \u201cinequality among the three major religions\u201d in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The council also asked the government to fund cultural festivals, protect shrines and sacred lands, and integrate traditional religion adherents into cultural councils.<\/p>\n<p>Fakayode commended South-West governors for supporting the celebration, stressing that Isese embodies morality, unity, reverence for nature, and communal living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to declare August 20 as a national public holiday in honour of Isese Day. ICIR President, Fayemi Fakayode, made the call in Ibadan on Wednesday during the 2025 Isese Day celebration. While states including Oyo, Lagos, Ogun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747","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=73747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73749,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73747\/revisions\/73749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}