•US, Iran and Israel war Escalating hostilities in the Middle East have sent shockwaves through Nigeria, grounding pilgrimages, disrupting travel plans, rattling the oil market and prompting anxious calls from Nigerians abroad. Besides, some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) – the Iran-inspired Shiite organisation founded in the...
The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission has announced that there will be no further pilgrimages to Israel until the Israel/Iran conflict is resolved. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, made this known in a statement today in Abuja. The statement was signed by Mr Celestine Toruka, Deputy Director and Head of M...
•Adegbite The Executive Secretary Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has said that the Commission will commence this year’s Easter pilgrimage exercise in June. He recently disclosed this in Abuja during a zoom meeting with the Conference of States, comprising the Chairmen and Secretaries of the States Christ...
•Tinubu A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), Nze Chidi Duru, has frowned at the report that the Tinubu-led federal government subsidised religious pilgrimage with N90 billion, warning that such should not have any place in present day Nigeria. Duru, the Deputy National Organising Secretary of the ru...
•Rev Yakubu Pam The Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has announced that 2023/2024 Main Pilgrimage exercise to Rome and Greece will commence end of this month. The NCPC also formally released the cost and breakdown of the Pilgrimage package in a letter dated 28th December, 2023 and addressed to the Chairmen and Secretaries of all [&h...
The National Hajj Commission has extended the deadline for payment of 2024 hajj. In a statement today, its Assistant Director on Public Affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara said the new deadline is now January 31, 2024 as against December 31, 2023. “The extension was in response to the heartfelt concerns raised by religious clerics, State Pilgrims’ [&h...
•Pam (center) with Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board members The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, Reverend (Dr) Yakubu Pam, has informed that the commission would commence the 2023 main pilgrimage exercise to Rome by the third week of January 2024. He made this known in Abuja recently, during a meeting with members of ...
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