In a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, the Nigerians who are Muslim pilgrims on their way to Kaolak, Senegal were killed when the buses conveying them came under gun attack in Burkina Faso.
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Abike Dabiri- Erewa, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission on Wednesday warned intending Muslim pilgrims not to allow themselves to be tempted into taking along with them hard drugs to Saudi Arabia, as doing so could attract the death penalty.
Three Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims were killed by a roadside bomb as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin on Tuesday, police said.
The Board Public Relations Officer, Yunusa Abdullahi, disclose in a press statement issued in Kaduna on Monday.
Abdullahi told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Kaduna that the pilgrims were airlifted back in three batches of 560, 312 and 304 pilgrims respectively, via Medview airlines.
A total of 6,710 pilgrims from Nigeria have so far returned to Nigeria from Saudia Arabia, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria said on Tuesday in Makka.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the pilgrims, from Gada, Rabah and Wurno local government areas, were transported by Air Planers Airline which left the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport at about 4 p.m.
The board’s Public Relations Officer, Hajiya Hadiza Abbas, gave the directive in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Kano.