Tag: hajj

The Plateau State chairman of the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, MPWB, Ado Ismaila, has said the board would not allow ...

The Hajj commission said all female pilgrims must be accompanied by male companions. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) ...

Dollars would be sold to pilgrims at N146 to a dollar. The Ogun State Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board said on ...

The state’s slot, like that of other states, was reduced by 20 per cent. The Executive Secretary of Jigawa Pilgrims ...

The governor also lamented the inflated sale of Hajj forms by officials. Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Monday ordered ...

Three million people performed the Hajj in 2012. Saudi Arabia's religious authorities on Wednesday approved a request by the government ...

Had Nigeria, like Britain, an unwritten constitution, no one would know ours is officially a secular country. Every politician not ...

The state government will subsidise accommodation for the pilgrims. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has allocated 6,450 seats ...

The National Hajj Commission has said that intending female pilgrims for this year’s exercise must be accompanied by male guides. ...

The deceased returned from hajj a couple of days ago.

The death toll of Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia has risen to 21 from 14, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. ...

Nigerians seem not to have missed a nauseating coincidence a while ago during the first round of the transportation of ...

The Saudi Arabian authorities have agreed to allow deported Nigerian pilgrims with valid visas to be transported to the holy ...

So what is the solution to the Nigeria-Saudi Arabia diplomatic impasse? So many writers and pundits have written about it. ...

The delegation will meet with the authorities in Saudi Arabia to explore ways of resolving the hajj impasse

Having got no concession whatsoever after a week of hopping and dancing in the eyes of the world, the Nigerian ...

Niger State airlifted its first set of pilgrims on Monday.

A 29-year old Plateau state's born teacher, Lohnan Joseph, has been intercepted while trying to board a Saudi-bound flight at ...

The National Hajj Commission (NAHCOM), on Saturday said it was resuming the airlift of prospective pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, an exercise ...

Mr. Tilde says deportation of Nigerian pilgrims by Saudi authorities should teach Nigerian leaders a lesson in discipline and good ...

Foreign Affairs Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru, on Friday in New York, protested against the denial of consular access to detained Nigerian female ...

Records show that only Nigerian women have been deported from the Islamic holy land.

A state by state account of deported women pilgrims as at Thursday.

The women face psychological trauma after their deportation from the Holy Land.

As Nigerian and Saudi authorities continue to bicker over the detention of Nigerian women in that country, reports reaching us ...