{"id":80724,"date":"2025-12-22T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80724"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:02:11","slug":"fg-declares-christmas-boxing-day-new-year-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/22\/fg-declares-christmas-boxing-day-new-year-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Declares Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has declared December 25 and 26, 2025, as well as January 1, 2026, as public holidays to mark Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Magdalene Ajani.<\/p>\n<p>Tunji-Ojo extended Christmas and New Year greetings to Nigerians, urging them to reflect on the values of love, peace, humility and sacrifice associated with the season.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on citizens to remain law-abiding and security-conscious during the festivities, while praying for peace, improved security and national development.<\/p>\n<p>The holidays will enable Nigerians across the country to celebrate the yuletide and usher in the New Year with their families and communities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Federal Government has declared December 25 and 26, 2025, as well as January 1, 2026, as public holidays to mark Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the New Year celebrations. The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":80725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80724","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\/80724","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80726,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80724\/revisions\/80726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}