{"id":45595,"date":"2020-12-24T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=45595"},"modified":"2020-12-24T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:35:06","slug":"fg-declares-friday-monday-january-1-yuletide-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/fg-declares-friday-monday-january-1-yuletide-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Declares Friday, Monday, January 1 Yuletide Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, December 25, Monday, December 28, 2020 and Friday, January 1, 2021, as public holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year celebrations respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, announced this on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Shuaib Belgore, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was titled, \u2018FG declares December 25, 28, 2020; January 1, 2021 public holidays.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The minister felicitated with Christians and all Nigerians both at home and abroad on this year\u2019s Christmas and New Year celebrations.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Aregbesola urged Christians to adopt the creed of Christ on faith, hope and love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must emulate the life of humility, service, compassion, patience, peace and righteousness that the birth and ministry of Jesus Christ signified; that will be the best way to know Christ and celebrate his birth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aregbesola advised Nigerians and Christians in particular, to adhere strictly to the COVID-19 protocols and guidelines, as stipulated by relevant authorities, during and after the yuletide, especially with the second wave of the outbreak of the disease.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has declared Friday, December 25, Monday, December 28, 2020 and Friday, January 1, 2021, as public holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year celebrations respectively.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7933,7932],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-45595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-public-holidays","tag-yelutide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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