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There are 3 categories of holidays under Act 601.
\n1. Public Holiday listed in Schedule 1 – this includes all the religious holidays and national days – Republic and independence.<\/p>\n

2. Additional holidays. These are holidays that the President may declare.<\/p>\n

3. Substituted holidays- as the name suggests substituting one holiday with another day. President is given the power to do this.<\/p>\n

My view:
\na. The President has no power in declaring category 1 holidays. Category 1 holidays are statutory holidays determined expressly by legislation. Even the publication by the interior ministry on category 1 holidays is a needless process.<\/p>\n

b. The President has power to declare additional holidays outside category 1 holidays. Any other day aside category 1 holidays.<\/p>\n

c. Substituted holidays. The President only has the power to substitute holidays with another day.<\/p>\n

We have not implemented this law effectively as we do to all our laws.<\/p>\n

We must fully operationalize Section 3 of Act 601 by substituting ALL holidays which fall on working days from Monday -Thursday be moved to FRIDAYS.<\/p>\n

ALL category 1 holidays which fall on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) should not be substituted and must be celebrated and observed as such.<\/p>\n

This is an easy way to increase productivity and increase revenue.<\/p>\n

We don’t need the Chinese to implement this!<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Clement Akapame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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