Eid-el Fitr: FG Declares Monday, Tuesday Public Holidays

The Federal Government has declared May 2 and 3 as public holidays to mark the Workers Day and Eld-el-Fitr celebrations. 

 The minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore on Thursday. 

 The statement partly read 

“Labour is the very essence of humanity. We are alive because we work and only the dead are incapable of working. “I, therefore, enjoin workers to imbibe the culture of productivity. 

Workers are also urged to raise the bar of their trade-in line with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) led administration’s drive to rev up the vehicle of governance and make all the people of Nigeria derive maximum benefit from the nation. 

The end of work is productivity. READ ALSO: God is not the author of confusion, Adeboye tells transgenders to repent It is productivity that leads to the satisfactory provision of goods and services and wealth creation. It is therefore the path to national and individual prosperity”.