{"id":246803,"date":"2016-09-08T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246803"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:31:51","slug":"monday-sept-12-declared-holiday-for-eidul-adha-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246803","title":{"rendered":"Monday, Sept 12 declared holiday for Eidul-Adha celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has announced that Monday, September 12 will be a statutory holiday to mark 2016\u2019s Eidul-Adha celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Interior Minister, Prosper Bani, noted that September 12 should be observed as a holiday by the whole country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3fb571ef-5c4b-4eed-830a-bcdfcb59e78f-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-246805\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3fb571ef-5c4b-4eed-830a-bcdfcb59e78f-1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3fb571ef-5c4b-4eed-830a-bcdfcb59e78f (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The office of the National Chief Imam has confirmed that Monday, September 12 would be the day for the Eidul Adha.<\/p>\n<p>The Eidul-Adha festival is also known as the feast of sacrifice is celebrated annually by Muslims to mark Prophet Abraham\u2019s intended sacrifice of his son in fulfillment of a command from God.<\/p>\n<p>The festival coincides with the Hajj activities currently ongoing in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212043912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189266\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212043912.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Imam\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eid prayers on Monday will be expected to be led by the National Chief Imam Sheik Usman Nuhu Sharubutu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has announced that Monday, September 12 will be a statutory holiday to mark 2016\u2019s Eidul-Adha celebrations. A statement signed by the Interior Minister, Prosper Bani, noted that September 12 should be observed as a holiday by the whole country. The office of the National Chief Imam has confirmed that Monday, September 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":246807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4006,11714,3,11715],"class_list":["post-246803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-chief-imam","tag-eidul-adha","tag-ghana-news","tag-prosper-bani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}