•Hajj pilgrims The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has successfully airlifted over 3,700 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia across 12 flights, marking a significant milestone in the Hajj 2025 operation. The airlift commenced last Wednesday with an inaugural flight flagged off by the state government, reports Saturday Tribune. In a stateme...
•Hajj pilgrims Lagos has commenced airlifting of its intending pilgrims for the Y2025 Holy pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 388 pilgrims on board the inaugural flight. The intending pilgrims numbering 388, comprising 167 males and 221 females, left the Pilgrims and Cargo Terminal, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on...
•Hajj pilgrims The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has airlifted over 8,819 pilgrims, representing over 19 per cent, within four days. This marks an improvement from last year’s exercise, reports The Nation. According to the commission, Air Peace has concluded the airlift of Kogi State pilgrims, transporting 559 out of the 564 sch...
•Hajj pilgrims The federal government has booked down a total of 64,188 Nigerians for this year’s holy pilgrimage. This was disclosed by the Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday at the flag off of the inaugural airlift of pilgrims from Nigeria to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the 2025 Hajj, reports Channels TV. The grand […]
•NAHCON 36-member advance team The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) today announced the arrival of its 36-member advance team, comprising staff and medical personnel, at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Madina. The team is in Saudi Arabia ahead of the first set of Nigerian pilgrims scheduled to depart on May 9, 2025. NAHCON’...
•Hajj pilgrims The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency is set to commence airlift operations of its intending pilgrims on May 14, 2025. This was contained in a statement issued by Yunusa Mohammed Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer of the agency and made available to newsmen in Kaduna today. The statement quoted the Executive Chairman of ...
•Pallbearers, next to Swiss Guards, carry the coffin of the late Pope Francis as it is transported to St Peter’s Basilica Pope Francis’s coffin began its transfer to St Peter’s Basilica today for three days of lying in state, with thousands of well-wishers gathering to pay their respects to the leader of the world’s Catholics […]...
•Hajj Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced compulsory polio vaccination for all intending pilgrims for the year 2025. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Abdulrahman Idris, made the announcement today during a press briefing at the board’s headquarters in Bauchi. He stated that all the 2,200 intending pilgrims who registe...
•Hajj pilgrims The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has announced that intending pilgrims from Kaduna State are to pay the sum of N8,457,685.59 as fares for the 2025 Hajj. A statement signed by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, Yunusa Muhammad Abdullahi, and made available to newsmen, explained that the intending pilgrims are ...
The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has commenced the payment of N61,080 to each of the 6,239 pilgrims who performed Hajj through the state in 2023. NAHCON had previously stated that the refunds were due to an interruption in electricity supply during the pilgrims’ stay at Muna, which affected the cooling systems and caused inconvenience ...

