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Nigeria marked its 66th Independence Anniversary on Thursday, October 1, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who returned to the country on Tuesday after a four-week vacation in Europe, delivered his address to Nigerians in commemoration of the important event.<\/p>\n Like last year, Tinubu’s administration had skipped the traditional Independence Day ceremonial military parade and opted for a low-key celebration which included nationwide Presidential broadcast, public lecture and religious services.<\/p>\n \n …<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nigeria marked its 66th Independence Anniversary on Thursday, October 1, 2026. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who returned to the country on Tuesday after a four-week vacation in Europe, delivered his address to Nigerians in commemoration of the important event. Like last year, Tinubu’s administration had skipped the traditional Independence Day ceremonial military parade and opted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[44841,258,256,7165,7690,8008,7781,257,4687,393,254,8769,8308],"class_list":["post-246216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-66th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-independence","tag-issues","tag-left","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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