The 1,550 intending pilgrims from Kwara on Thursday commenced the mandatory inoculation and other medical screening ahead of the 2018 hajj.
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Uja, who made this known while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, said that no pilgrim absconded in Rome and Greece.
Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs, AbdulHakeem AbdulLateef, gave the directive during a stakeholders meeting on Friday in Lagos.
Alhaji Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh, the Executive Secretary of the board, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday at a special prayer to usher in preparation for 2018 Hajj.
The pilgrims arrived Sultan Abubakar International Airport Sokoto aboard Max airline on Sunday and were received a member of the state Hajj Team, Alhaji Abdullahi Maigwandu
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this was the second time pilgrims from the state returned money which they found to the state Pilgrims officials.
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 group in a statement implored the Federal Government to consider the relative importance of the religious undertaking to the nation as it offers opportunity for Nigerians performing the hajj
It offers the faithful a special chance to make pilgrimages and seek a general pardon for their sins as they walk through a holy door
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)
Despite calls in some quarters that the sponsorship of pilgrims be stopped, Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, on Monday disclosed that although, sponsorship to the Holy land is not totally ideal but that the welfare of the pilgrims must be government’s top priority during the spiritual exercise
Muslim pilgrims from Plateau State have been warned to uphold the true tenets of Islamic doctrine and obey the constituted rules of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Captain Aliyu Danja, spokesman of the Division, said this while addressing newsmen in Maiduguri
It should be recalled that seven governors of the PDP have been daggers drawn with the party since the Special National Convention of the party held at the Eagle Square, Abuja
He, however, said the principle of first come-first to go would be applied for all the pilgrims irrespective of status
A Saudi official, Marwan Zubaidi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Makkah that pilgrims’ transportation to Mina on the way to Arafat would begin on Saturday night
Bukar said that another aircraft, with registration number 200-3, took off from the airport with 537 intending pilgrims
Governor Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi State, his wife, Zainab; and 48 other intending pilgrims from Kebbi State were among those aboard the aircraft