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NAHCON directs states to intensify enlightenment on early payment of Hajj 2025 fare
The 2025 Hajj is expected to be held in June.
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The 2025 Hajj is expected to be held in June.
The EFCC accuses the NAHCON officials of overpayment of Hajj operational costs to themselves, unjustified cash withdrawals, among other allegations.
Jalal Arabi, NAHCON Chairman. As Mr Arabi prepares to oversee his second Hajj as the helmsman of NAHCON, expectations are ...
"The VIPs paid for an upgrade from Tent D to Tent A via private Hajj operators. As far as NAHCON's ...
"The federal government granted us a N90 billion subsidy, which we carefully utilised to address the unprecedented increase in Hajj ...
"The issue of decentralising NAHCON should not even come up. State cannot handle airlift of pilgrims. I think even Saudi ...
The clerics sought divine intervention for Nigeria's peace, prosperity, and progress.
"We adopted some new strategies when we came on board. But along the way, we encountered some glitches and pitfalls, ...
NAHCON said it completed the airlift of the pilgrims 72 hours before the deadlines set by the Saudi authorities
"Staff will be given the option to return to Nigeria after 21 days of service if they choose to do ...
The pilgrim's death occurred after a brief illness.
Mr Arabi also said the Nigerian government has reduced the BTA to $500 from $800 previously given to pilgrims.
"This year’s Hajj preparations is one of the most difficult and peculiar ones."
The vice president urged members to synergize and bring fresh perspectives to the operations of the commission.
"We are going to trim down the number of unentitled people. Unentitled patients are bringing constraints to us and that's ...
The Presidency says there is an urgent need to replace the vehicles as they have become very difficult to maintain.
The official said this a a budget defence meeting at the National Assembly.
State House staff will also use the facility, but the presidency says the clinic has been overstretched and other Nigerians ...
The treatment was part of the activities to mark the 2018 World Kidney Day
The hospital management has faced criticisms for lack of basic amenities.
“You can imagine what happens across the states to governors wives if this will happen to me in Abuja.”
The health minister says the cancer centre at the National Hospital in Abuja will be ready by December.
The management says the hospital needs improved funding to operate more efficiently.