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Eid-el-Fitr: I’m delightful seeing Christians breaking fast, extending gifts to Muslims ― Buhari
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President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight that Eid festival will continue to bring with it peace, safety, security, brotherhood, and love amongst Muslims and Christians as witnessed during the fasting period.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president made his feelings known in a Sallah message issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to the president, it is noteworthy and delightful to see Christians breaking fast and in some instances, extending goodwill and gifts to Muslim faithful during Ramadan.
Eid-el-Fitr: Gov. Ugwuanyi calls for prayers, sober reflection
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As Muslims celebrate this year’s Eid-el-Fitr, to mark the end of Ramadan, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has called on all Nigerians to take advantage of the occasion to reflect soberly and intensify prayers for the peace, security, unity and progress of the country.
In his Sallah message, Gov. Ugwuanyi, who felicitated with all Muslim faithful, stressed that the religious event has great positive impact on the nation’s efforts in surmounting its security, socio-economic and public health challenges.
The governor therefore enjoined all Nigerians to continue to trust in God and embrace the cherished virtues of love, charity, peace and sacrifice as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Mohammed.
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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has finally condemned the attack on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Ohafia Local Government Area (LGA) of Abia.
Kalu, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, described the act as undemocratic and uncivilised.
The former governor of Abia State urged law enforcement agencies to commence a full-scale investigation into the attack to identify and bring the perpetrators to book.
He stressed that Nigeria’s growing democracy must be protected for the sake of development.
While calling on the political class to uphold democratic virtues in their endeavours, Kalu emphasised that politics was not a do-or-die affair.
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This was confirmed by three electricity distribution companies in a post on their Twitter pages.
Abuja Electric (AEDC) confirmed to DAILY POST that the national grid has collapsed, the reason for the outage in Abuja.
He said, “ Good day, please be informed that we are currently experiencing a grid system outage which has affected supply to our franchise area.
“Normal supply will be restored as soon as we receive more allocation from the national grid. We regret the inconvenience caused.”
Similarly, a post by Kaduna Electric on Twitter read: “We regret to inform you that the power outage currently being experienced across our franchise ‘Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states is as a result of the collapse of the national grid.”