
The Federal Government through the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has declared Monday and Tuesday a public holiday in Nigeria to mark the Eid-al Fitr celebration.
The Director of Press in the Ministry, Mohammed Manga,Announced this on Thursday.
Aregbesola felicitated all Muslim faithful for the successful
completion of the Ramadan fast and urged the Muslim faithful to
replicate the life of kindness, love, tolerance, peace and good
neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be
upon Him).
He lamented the spate of ethnic conflicts that have resurfaced in
some parts of Northern Nigeria in recent times and appealed to Nigerians
to see themselves as a single entity and learn to tolerate one another
despite ethnic and religious differences.
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