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
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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
The statement said that the airline was pleased with the safe arrival of the pilgrims after a successful pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia
Governor Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi State and his wife, Zainab, were to board the aircraft with 48 other intending pilgrims from the state
Alhaji Abdullah Muhktar, the National Commissioner in charge of Operations, announced this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday
It said those on the medium fare category travelling from the North would pay N672,996.52, while those from the South would pay N680,369.52
Mana said: “All Muslims know that it is a simple injunction mostly in the sharia, that women should not travel a certain distance without a muharram, especially for Hajj
This information filtered in just as the accommodation challenge facing the Lagos State continent to the Holy land was said to have been resolved