GOVERNOR Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno state has handed over power to his deputy, Umar Usman Kadafur, and embarked on…
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OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested intending pilgrims of the 2024 Hajj, as they planned…
PILGRIMS from Kebbi State who were scheduled for the first flight to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have left for…
GOVERNOR Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has approved N500,000 subsidy for each of the 1,373 intending pilgrims for the upcoming…
THE federal government has released a sum of N90 billion to subsidise the 2024 pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Saudi…
THE Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has approved a subsidy of N500,000 for each of the intending pilgrims from…
AS is usually the case, the 2024 Hajj exercise has already generated some concerns which the National Hajj Commission of…
THE federal government has approved only three airlines for the airlift of intending pilgrims for the 2023 hajj exercise. The…
The National Hajj Commission has extended the deadline for payment of 2024 hajj. In a statement on Tuesday, its Assistant…
THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) says the commission has three weeks to negotiate with service providers in the…
SECURITY agents have apprehended an undisclosed number of suspected bandits, their wives and informants immediately after they returned from Saudi…
THE inaugural airlift of Nigerian pilgrims has unprecedentedly began with a rescue operation as Aero Contractors failed to produce an…
SOME hajj administrators and intending pilgrims have rejected the decision of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to arbitrarily…
THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has deducted 810 hajj seats allocated to Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states, thereby…
THE Independent Hajj Reporter (IHR), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has called for more security measures to taken at airports…
INDEPENDENT Hajj Reporters, a civil society organization that monitors and reports Hajj and Umrah activities in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia,…
FACED with difficult options of asking pilgrims to pay additional fee for the increment in air ticket , the National…
GOVERNOR Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has approved the appointment of a 17-man government delegation for the 2023 Hajj…
THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) will charge intending pilgrims an additional $300 (N139,350), barring any last minute change.…
By Ibrahim Muhammed THE scheduled signing of 2023 hajj airlift agreements by NAHCON and the hajj carriers could not be…