The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the pilgrims, who were on the ninth flight from the state, arrived Makkah at about 4pm on Monday.
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Alhaji Badaru Mohammed, the Board’s Public Relations Officer, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria during an interview in Katsina.
The Coordinator of the State’s Pilgrims Welfare Board in Madina, Alhaji Aminu Sanyina, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Madina.
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 News Agency of Nigeria reports that the last batch of 474 pilgrims was transported by Max Airline at about 3 a.m on Thursday.
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.
The News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that two pilgrims from Nasarawa State were allegedly detained and manhandled on arrival at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina on August 19
Alhaji Sheka Kamara, Special Assistant, Social Affairs, Office of the President; Nurideen Sanko Yilla, Special Assistant, Political Affairs, Office of the President; and Alhaji M. A. Bah, Minister of State, Office of the Vice President.
The Coordinator in charge of Medina Operation and Secretary of NAHCON, Dr. Bello Tambuwal, made this known while briefing journalists on Saturday in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
The Commission’s Medical Coordinator in Medina, Dr. Hamidu Liman, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Medina.
Obaseki gave the charge during a visit to the 260 intending pilgrims at the Hajj Camp on Dumez Road, Benin City.
Its Executive Secretary, Alhaji Dayyabu Garga, told newsmen on Tuesday in Jos that the intending pilgrims paid for the exercise in 2014 but did not travel because their monies “disappeared”.
Leme told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jalingo on Monday that 177 of the pilgrims were sponsored by the state government and 37 by local councils.
Dr AbdulHakeem Abdul-Lateef, the Commissioner for Home Affairs and the Amirul Hajj, via a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos by Jamiu Dosunmu, the board’s spokesperson, said they were transported in four flights.
Qatari-owned aircraft are blocked from using the airspace of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates as part of economic sanctions enforced by the four countries in June.
The spokesperson of the board, Alhaji Badaru Bello Karofi, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Katsina.
Osinbajo, who was represented by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Muhammed Bello, commended the National Hajj Commission and aviation agencies for the arrangement being put in place.
The move makes it the first financial watchdog in the Gulf to act on the new blacklist, with regulators in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt likely to follow.
OPEC and some non-OPEC states, including Russia, agreed in 2016 to cut production by 1.8 million barrels per day in a deal that has been extended to March 2018.