The Federal Government has declared Monday, 3rd October as a public holiday to mark the nation’s 62nd Independence Anniversary Celebration. The last national holiday in Nigeria was Eid-el-Kabir on 11th and 12 July, while the next one after that of the Independence Day is due Eid-el-Maulud on 10th October. In announcing the Independence Day holiday on Wednesday, the Minister of …

Two hundred and eighty-six foreign nationals took the Oath of Allegiance to adopted Nigerian citizenship. They include four Americans, 14 Britons and 86 Lebanese. After the ceremony presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola told State House correspondents that on 9 February, the Federal Executive Council approved a list of the …