The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Ambassador Ismail Yusuf Abba, has reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to strict compliance with Saudi Arabia’s health and operational guidelines ahead of the 2026 Hajj. Abba gave the assurance during a weekly virtual preparatory meeting with the Deputy Minist...
•Prof Abdullahi Saleh The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Professor Abdullahi Saleh, has said the 2025 Hajj will be hitch-free. He stated this while responding to a story which claimed that the “thousands of Nigerian intending pilgrims may be unable to perform the 2025 Hajj due to the cancellation of the […...
President Bola Tinubu has fired Jalal Arabi, as Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). Ajuri Ngelale, Presidential spokesman, disclosed this in a statement in which he announced Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman as the new chairman of the agency. “Professor Usman is a renowned scholar with qualifications from two...
A reliable source from the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has confirmed to the BBC that the agency is still detaining the Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, (NAHCON) Jalal Arabi, alongside the secretary of the commission, Abdullahi Kontagora. The EFCC is probing how NAHCON sp...
The Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Jalal Arabi, and the commission’s secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, are currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged mismanagement of the N90bn 2024 Hajj subsidy. In a document sighted by our correspondent yesterday, the anti-graft age...
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