The Permanent Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Malam Salihu Abubakar recently held an interactive session with journalists where he announced that the Board had fixed August 10 for the commencement of refund of deposits to those intending pilgrims of the aborted 2020 Hajj who requested for it. Malam […]

Following the ban on international hajj this year by Saudi Arabia, the Lagos state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Anofiu Elegushi has told intending pilgrims to differ their 2020 hajj plans till next year, stating that their money is safe with the government. Prince Elegushi stated this during a one-day sensitization programme on the future […]

A group of Christian pilgrims from Alabama, United States is turning to prayer and positive thinking as they cope with an open-ended coronavirus quarantine, confined to their West Bank hotel rooms while they wait for clearance to return to the United States. Chris Bell, the lead pastor at the 3Circle Church in Fairhope, Ala., said […]

By Mousa Ubandawaki The narrative of this year’s Hajj has started to be written with the inauguration of the 4th Board of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), on the 13th February 2020. Paradoxically the event steeped in history as it marked the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Nigeria’s late Head of State, […]

The Chairman, National Hajj Commission, NAHCON, Alh Zikrullah Kunle Hassan has signed the 2020 Hajj Agreement with the Establishment of Pilgrims of African Non Arab countries in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The signing of the agreement is a condition for all hajj participating countries. The Chairman also signed an agreement with HAFIL Transport Company for the […]