Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Nigeria's Jigawa State Establishes New Annual State Holiday

Sources: Triumph (Dutse) and Nigeria public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nigeria's Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has announced that, starting in 2008, August 27th would become an annual public holiday in Jigawa State. This date corresponds with the anniversary of the day the state was created in 1991.