However, some civil society groups and prominent Muslims have asked NAHCON to shift the deadline. Independent Hajj Reporters in a statement by its chairman, Ibrahim Muhammad, said that for Nigeria to maximally utilize her 95, 000 slots for the year, that the deadline was not attainable. Its findings showed that less than a month to the deadline, states pilgrims’ boards were yet to register 40 percent of the allocations given to Nigeria by the Saudi Arabian Government.
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Five others were injured in the house in Mecca’s district of Shara al-Mujahdeen, a spokesman for Mecca’s Civil Defence, Nayef al-Sherif, added in a media statement.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the vendors are Nigerians residing in the Holy Land.
The Islamic year started counting in 622 AD after the emigration of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in Saudi Arabia.
The Board’s Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Nuhu Badamasi, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Makkah that the deceased who were males, died in Makkah after performing their Hajj rites at the Ararat.
This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Muftau Okoya, in a statement signed by the Spokesman of the board, Jamiu Dosunmu.
The board’s spokesman, Yunusa Abdullahi, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Kaduna that the pilgrims were transported in 17 flights.
Alhaji Ibrahim Hashim, the Public Relations Officer of the board, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Jigawa on Tuesday.
Obaseki gave the charge during a visit to the 260 intending pilgrims at the Hajj Camp on Dumez Road, Benin City.
Okoya, who made the announcement on Saturday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said two Med-view aircraft would airlift prospective pilgrims.
Alhaji Khaleel Fawehinmi, the board’s Chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Akure that the intending pilgrims should assemble at the board’s premises on July 30.
The statement, titled: “Hajj fare hike: Don’t blame NAHCON,” reads in full:
This year’s hajj fare of N1.5 million announced by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has been generating ripples. Prospective pilgrims have wondered why the fare is higher than that of 2016
Pogba, who is a Muslim, decided to attend Umrah – which is a non-mandatory pilgrimage for people who follow Islam
The Executive Chairman of NAHCON, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
He said the introduction of instalment payment would also go a long way to encourage intending pilgrims to access money for the pilgrimage
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria says it will compensate pilgrims who could not get any service they paid for…
The Secretary of the agency, Okoya Adeniyi Muftau, stated after receiving the delegation of the Amirul hajj, led by Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, at Lagos House, Makkah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Saturday
e said one of them hailed from Kano Municipal Local Government Area, while the other came from Gaya Local Government Area
Umar said each of the pilgrims would get 200 Saudi Riyals, which is about N18,000, and noted that the annual gesture was to assist the pilgrim who might likely exhaust their basic travelling allowances
Speaking at the pre-Arafat Stakeholders Meeting on September 8, NAHCON Chairman, Abdullahi Muktar, asked officials of state pilgrims’ welfare agencies to prepare their pilgrims for the return journey to avoid delay