By Ishola Balogun, Saudi Arabia Nigeria has recorded its first and second flights on the return leg as scheduled.  FlyNas departed with 423 pilgrims from Federal Capital Territory, Abuja at about 8: 20am Saudi time on Friday, while another Flynas flight XY7004 departed Jeddah to Abuja at 02:58hrs with 424 FCT Pilgrims. In two days […]

•Outbound journey begins today •7,736 to embark on Ziyarah to Madinah By Ishola Balogun, Reporting from Saudi Arabia The Nigerian Ambassador  to Saudi Arabia has congratulated Nigeria and her contingent to the Kingdom for a successful Hajj adding that after two years of interregnum, Nigeria was among the few countries that participated in the annual […]

•Perform farewell circumbulation By Ishola Balogun, Reporting from Saudi Arabia As Hajj pilgrims throng the Grand Mosque to perform the farewell Tawaf in Makkah after completing the stoning ritual on the third day of Tashreeq, the less than one million pilgrims are bid to begin their outbound journey to their various countries.The Tawaf Al-Wida, or […]

By Ishola Balogun, reporting from Saudi Arabia As pilgrims prepare for airlifts back home, Nigeria has recorded another loss of a pilgrim, an Islamic scholar and member of the Ulama’u Team of the National Hajj Commission, NAHCON. The scholar, Dr Abdulrahman Maigona from Gombe State, died, yesterday, according to a statement by the Head of Media, […]

By Ishola Balogun, Saudi Arabia The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has declared that it will investigate the extortion of some intending pilgrims by some licensed tour operators, who allegedly collected extra money from the intending pilgrims claiming that such amount was requested by NAHCON for their prompt airlifting. Reacting to a viral video […]