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Akeredolu to return Hajj Camp ground to Muslims
Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has pledged to return the erstwhile Hajj camp to the Muslims. The site was converted to Ebola Village by the immediate past administration of Dr Olusegun Mimiko. Chairman of the State…
Read More »IN DETAILS: NAHCON allocates 2256 hajj Seats to Niger, 2419 to Kaduna, 2128 to Kebbi
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has allocated 2022 hajj seats to States Muslim Pilgrims Welfare boards, FCT and armed forces group. NAHCON Chairman Barr Zikrullah Hassan announced the distributions of the Hajj 2022…
Read More »Hajj 2023: 1,827 Osun Pilgrims airlifted to Saudi Arabia
As States continue airlifting their pilgrims for the 2023 Hajj, all 1,827 pilgrims from Osun State are now in Saudi Arabia. OSBC Correspondent, Sakiru Oyewale in a telephone conversation with newsmen stated that the last…
Read More »Eid Al-Fitr likely on Saturday, no possibility of sighting Shawwal crescent on Thursday – IAC
RIYADH — There is no possibility to sight the Shawwal crescent on Thursday, Ramadan 29, corresponding to April 20, and hence Eid Al-Fitr could fall on Saturday, April 22, according to the International Astronomical Center (IAC). The…
Read More »32-storey ship to transport Bangladesh Hajj pilgrims in 2024
A 32-storey ship will start operation on the Chattogram-Jeddah sea route from 2024 to carry Hajj pilgrims at an affordable cost to Saudi Arabia in eight days. Karnaphuli Ship Builders Ltd has taken the initiative…
Read More »BREAKING: NAHCON allocates 33, 976 hajj seats to States Pilgrims Boards, 9,032 to Tour Operators
Hajj Reporters The national Hajj Commission of Nigeria has allocated 33, 976 hajj seat to the 36 States Muslim pilgrims’ welfare boards and FCT and 9,032 t Private Tour Operators for hajj 2022. …
Read More »Just in: Yobe losses female intending pilgrim on transit to Hajj 2023
A female pilgrim from Yobe State Fanna Hassan has died in Maiduguri Hajj camp, Borno state, an officials says. The official, who is the zonal Coordinator of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) in…
Read More »HAJJ AIRLIFT: FIRST BATCH OF 550 KANO PILGRIMS DEPART ON MAY 25TH – KANO ES
By Muhammad Muhammad Executive secretary, Kano state Pilgrims Welfare Board, Ambassador Mohammadu Abba Dambatta said the airlift of Kano pilgrims will begins on Thursday 25th of May. Briefing Journalist on Friday, Dambatta explained that the…
Read More »Diary of a trial that send IG Wala to Jail (I)
An eyewitness account of what transpired in the court room By Ibrahim Muhammed “A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the…
Read More »The Cost Implication of New Saudi Hajj 2020 Policy
By Ibrahim Muhammed National Coordinator Independent Hajj Reporters The new hajj policy introduced by Saudi Arabia Ministry of Hajj recently may alter the arithmetic and the formula for finding the 2020 hajj fare and may change…
Read More »Hajj 2023: 429 Ogun pilgrims arrive Saudi Arabia
The first batch of pilgrims from Ogun State has landed at Prince Muhammad Bin Abdul-Azeez International Airport, Medina in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The 1st set of pilgrims from Ogun who are 429 in numbers…
Read More »HAJJ 2023: FIRST BATCH OF OGUN PILGRIMS DEPARTS MONDAY
Press Release Ogun State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (OGMPWB), has said the first batch of the 1,234 intending pilgrims and three officials would depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Monday, May 29, 2023. The Executive…
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Akeredolu to return Hajj Camp ground to Muslims
Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has pledged to return the erstwhile Hajj camp to …
