✦ zenith calendar · the nigeria almanac
the days kept across the country, in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own words.
nigeria is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds nigeria's public holidays as the law names them and the government declares them each year. the muslim festivals are declared once the moon is seen, so they are dated only as declared; good friday and easter monday follow the published western easter table.
its dates are copied from published lists, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · with the muslim festivals as declared once the moon is seen
25 december
the feast of the birth of jesus christ, the son of god made man, and a public holiday throughout nigeria.
many who live in the cities travel home to their villages. christians go to church with carols and nativity plays, then share a feast, often jollof rice with chicken, and send dishes to their neighbours, who send food back.
1 january
the first day of the year, a public holiday throughout nigeria by law: a day for thanksgiving, prayer and good wishes for the year ahead.
on the night of 31 december churches of every denomination hold the watch night, or crossover, service until the new year comes in. the day itself is for rest, family visits, shared meals and greetings of "happy new year".
1 october
the anniversary of nigeria's independence on 1 october 1960: the national day, and a public holiday by law.
the president addresses the nation in the morning, and there are parades, cultural performances and ceremonies across the country. nigerians abroad hold parades and gatherings of their own.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, nigeria puts its days on their dates on that ring, in starlight. its mark is its flag, 🇳🇬.
each holiday carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition or the country itself tells it, and how it is kept.
on a new install, your phone's own country starts switched on. if your phone's language setting names nigeria as its region, nigeria starts lit; anywhere else it waits in the archive, whole.
nigeria arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it from its chip. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
nigeria shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
nigeria is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
nigeria is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
nigeria (public holidays) ·
Nigeria's Independence Day is 1 October every year, the anniversary of independence in 1960. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the nigeria almanac.
Good Friday falls on 26 March 2027 and Easter Monday on 29 March 2027, both public holidays in Nigeria. They follow the published western Easter table.
Nigeria's Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha are declared by the government once the moon is seen, so the nigeria almanac dates them only as declared.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called nigeria: the public holidays as the law names them and the government declares them, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Nigeria holds the country's public holidays, with the eids on the days the government declares. Sunni holds the Sunni days of the Hijri year from a published calendar. They are separate almanacs, so you can light either or both.
On a new install, the first page asks which almanacs start lit. If your phone's language setting names Nigeria as its region, the nigeria almanac starts switched on; otherwise it waits in the archive until you light it.
They are copied from published lists, not worked out on your phone. The government declares the year's holidays a few days ahead, and the Muslim festivals once the moon is seen.