The prayers, led by Sheikh Khalifa Abubakar Dieye from Senegal, Abiodun Yinusa and Sheikh Ibrahim Hamdallah, saw pilgrims under the aegis of the Our Lagos, Your Lagos Initiative seize the period of the Lesser Hajj to pray for the second year in office of the Ambode-led administration
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Yakubu said the payment was made on Monday in compliance to NAHCON’s directive to all state pilgrims welfare boards across the country
The statement also said the agency had introduced new measures to ensure smooth and proper documentation of the prospective pilgrims
Alhaji Adeleke AbdulKareem, the Secretary of the Oyo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Monday
He said the commission had started transporting pilgrims from Kano on October 9, while most of the pilgrims from Lagos, Ogun, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kogi, Abuja, Gombe, Bauchi, Katsina. Borno, Nassarawa and Jigawa were transported back home
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Mecca, the Director of Public Affairs of the commission, Alhaji Uba Mana, said the exercise had been smooth since its commencement on September 28
The first batch of 528 pilgrims from Gombe State on Thursday returned from Saudi Arabia, through Max Airline, reports the…
The king stated that these payments would not exclude the families of the deceased, and the injured, from launching lawsuits through the courts for compensation.
Already, the Saudi Authority had fixed September 23 for Arafat and following this development, the Nigerian Government announced September 24 for Eid-el-Kabir
The President urges all Nigerians to join him in praying for the quick and full recovery of their compatriots who were injured in the unfortunate incident.
The Chairman of the commission, Mallam Abdullahi Mukhtar, who made this known at a news conference in Abuja, said that the victims were responding to treatments in the Holy land.
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Mana said the head of the Medical Team told a NAHCON pre-Arafat meeting at the Nigeria Consulate in Makkah that the deceased died of natural causes as against speculations that they were involved in an accident
NAN further reports that the faithful are also expected to return to Muna for the stoning of Jamratul-Aqaba (Stoning of the Devil) on the 10th day of Zhulhija (the Sallah Day)
The Secretary of the Plateau State Muslim Pilgrims Board, Alhaji Salisu Musa, told journalists at a news briefing on Wednesday that the number witnessed a shortfall of 20 per cent as against the 1,300 that perform the last year pilgrimage due to the ongoing construction work at the mosque in Mecca
Though the Niger State Government claimed it has stopped the sponsorship of people on Holy pilgrimage to either Mecca or Jerusalem, but in 2013 it subsidized the pilgrimages by the faithful with over N1 billion
Similar experience was made public last year when a female undergraduate of the University of Ibadan saw an inscription of Allah in a piece of meat she bought and boiled
Mana also attributed the low casualty rate to the awareness created by the Commission on personal hygiene and the performance of a stress-free hajj
Mana said: “It is important for people to be patient as all of them cannot be transported at the same time