Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has declared that the Ramadan fast will continue today Wednesday while the Eid-el-Fitr will be on Thursday.

NSCIA, headed by Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, said this in a statement Tuesday evening.

After there was no positive sighting of a new crescent Tuesday, the Ramadan fasting continues tomorrow (today), the council said in a tweet.

The Eid-ul-fitr festival marks the end of Muslim fasting month, Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar where Muslims abstain from food, drink and sexual pleasure from dawn to dusk.

The Ramadan fast is either twenty-nine or thirty days, depending on when the new crescent is sighted.

By implication, the month will be 30 days this year.

PT