The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared tomorrow the 21st of (Friday), and Monday the 24th of April as public holidays.
This is to mark this year’s Eid-al-Fitr celebration.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, announced this on behalf of the government.
In a statement signed by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr. Shuaib Belgore, Aregbesola congratulated Muslims for completing the holy month of Ramadan.
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He called on them to imbibe the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, self-denial, sacrifice, and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him).
In another report, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has come out to claim that President Muhammadu Buhari did not intervene in the political controversies in Adamawa State because the matter was purely within the purview of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The minister made this known on Wednesday while responding to questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.
When asked by reporters why the President did not sanction the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Barrister Hudu Yunusa Ari, who wrongfully declared the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in the state, Aisha Dahiru Binani, winner of the poll, even when the collation of the results was yet to be concluded, the minister said: ‘I don’t think that this government has ever intervened in the way the Independent National Electoral Commission conducts elections. It was entirely an INEC matter and INEC has handled it.’
Asked whether the President would act since the INEC had called on him to discipline the REC who is his appointee, Mohammed said he was not in any position to ‘second guess’ what the President would do on the matter.
He, however, stressed that such a petition would have to pass through the process, beginning from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, before it gets to the President.