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THE ECONOMICS OF FG ADDING THURSDAY TO PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

The problem is that while the salaried worker does not mind a three-day public holiday most Nigerians are not salaried workers. They depend on each day's hustle to feed. Since no worker who has traveled will return to work half day on Friday we have essentially done an unplanned one-week holiday in a struggling economy. The woman whose family survived by selling Akara and bread to workers at the secretariat how will they cope this week? 

Since the public holiday is dependent on his Eminence the Sultan sighting the moon, why would the minister of interior announce Tuesday as public holiday without clearing with the Sultan? And when the moon was not sighted, extend the holiday to Thursday? I do not remember any other time in our history where these kind of basic issues are fumbled.

I have two gentlemen who arrived Asaba last night for long scheduled meetings on Thursday. Only upon arrival did they learn that Thursday has now been declared a public holiday. They are sitting in their hotel rooms admiring the Lagos lagoon ( and probably wondering what the hell convinced them to come to Asaba in the first place)

We cannot grow this economy playing this amateur game

Anyway enjoy the joke circulating in online. When everything else fails we revert to humor:
  
The sighting of the moon was Inconclusive
-INEC
.
The sighting of the moon has been adjourned till tomorrow
-Abuja High Court
.
The sighting of the moon was not altered, a committee will be set-up to be headed by Sen. David Mark (Chairman Senate committee on Observation)
-Senate
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The moon has already been sighted tomorrow
-Lai Mohammed
.
The anomally in the crescentic illumna of the moon in the atmospheric galaxy is tantamount to more crinkum crankum & hoola-baloo
-Patrick Obahiagbon
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The APC was the cause of the moon not sighted in Nigeria
-Fayose
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We will create another moon for Nigerians
-APC
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Due to none sighting of the Moon, the Board of the Ulamas has been dissolved. 
-Presidency
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We blew up the moon and we will blow up more moons
-NDA
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We are responsible for the absence of the moon in the sky
-Boko Haram
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Those responsible for the missing moon will soon be apprehended and charged accordingly. We have evidence. 
-EFCC
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We dont want to sight the Moon
-Brexit
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We know where the moon is but we dont want to say. 
-US

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