The federal government has declared Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 May, 2020 as public holidays to mark this year’s EIDUL-FITRI Celebration.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated all Muslim faithful for the successful completion of the Ramadan fast.
In a statement signed Thursday in Abuja, on behalf of the Minister by the Ministry’s director of Press and Public Relations, Mohammed Manga, Aregbesola called on Muslim to replicate the life of kindness, love, tolerance, peace and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), also expressed his concern about the spate of ethnic conflicts that has resurfaced in some parts of Northern Nigeria in recent times.
