Workers Day: FG Announces Monday Public Holiday
The federal government has announced Monday, May 1, as a public holiday to mark this year’s Workers Day celebration.
Interior minister Rauf Aregbesola announced this in a statement on Friday.
Aregbesola noted that the holiday is in recognition of workers’ efforts in nation building.
“There is dignity in labour, we have to have dedication and commitment to the work we do because it is vital to nation-building,” said the minister.
He encouraged workers to imbibe the culture of productivity, saying “The end of work is productivity. It is productivity that leads to satisfactory provision of goods and services and wealth creation. It is therefore the path to national and individual prosperity.”
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