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A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Holidays Act in order to declare June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria has passed the second ready at the House of Representatives.
The bill which was jointly sponsored by Rep. Edward Pwajok (APC-Plateau) and Rep. Kayode Oladele, seeks to bring the Act in tandem with the current realities and exigencies of the modern times.
Leading the debate, Pwajok said that before 1979, there were separate Acts regulating public holidays in the country.
He said the situation led to indiscriminate declaration of public holidays which had negative consequence on the nation.
Pwajok recalled that in 1975, a law was made to repeal all state laws on public holidays and to streamline the process of declaring holidays for the federation.
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According to him, by law, the President may declare any day as public holiday by public notice or…
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