The Federal Government has announced that there will be no public holiday on June 12.
This was disclosed in a statement posted on Twitter on Friday.
Contrary to speculations, the government via its @asorock Twitter handle revealed that the presidential order declaring June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day stated that the date will “in FUTURE YEARS replace May 29th as a National Public Holiday in celebration of Nigeria Democracy Day.”
The tweet revealed that there have been questions about June 12, 2018, being a public holiday and the “answer is NO.”
See the tweet below:
Government of Nigeria
✔@AsoRock
NOTICE:
There have been questions regarding whether or not there will be a FEDERAL public holiday on June 12, 2018.
The answer is NO.
Presidential Order says June 12 “in FUTURE YEARS will replace May 29th as a National Public Holiday in celebration of Nigeria Democracy Day.”
