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The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th August as public holidays.

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Yaahoo Journalist  reports that the Federal Government declared the public holidays to mark the 2019 Eid-il-Kabir celebrations.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Barr. Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah made this known in a terse statement on Tuesday.

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Ehuriah congratulated the Muslim faithful on the occasion and urged all Nigerians at home and in the diaspora, “to use the period of this year’s Eid-il-Kabir celebration to embrace the virtues of love, humility, peace and sacrifice as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh)”.

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