The Federal Government has declared next week Monday, May 2, and Tuesday, May 3, as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Workers Day and also celebrate Eid-el-Fitiri celebrations.
In a statement signed Thursday, by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore, the Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola made this declaration on behalf of the Federal Government.
“Labour is the very essence of humanity. We are alive because we work and only the dead are incapable of working.
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“I, therefore, enjoin workers to imbibe the culture of productivity. Workers are also urged to raise the bar of their trade-in line with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration’s drive to rev up the vehicle of governance and make all the people of Nigeria derive maximum benefit from the nation.
“The end of work is productivity. It is productivity that leads to the satisfactory provision of goods and services and wealth creation. It is therefore the path to national and individual prosperity,” the statement partly read.
The minister also congratulated all Muslims on the successful completion of the holy month of Ramadan.