Tag: 2019 Hajj
Hajj rituals start midnight Thursday – Saudi Arabia
Saudi Press Agency on Thursday reported that the 2019 Hajj rituals would start from the midnight of Thursday in Mecca’s…
1.8 million Hajj pilgrims to climb Mt. Arafat
About 1.8 million pilgrims from across nations of the world are expected to climb and stay on the Mountain Arafat…
2019 Hajj: Niger governor assures Muslim pilgrims of adequate care
Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger on Monday assured Muslim pilgrims of adequate care while in Saudi Arabia to partake in…
Arafat: Saudi modernises stoning of devil to check stampede
The Saudi authorities have introduced electronic system into the stoning of the three devils at Muna after Arafat day.
Pray for peace in Nigeria, farmers chair urges pilgrims
The Chairman, Rice Farmers Association (RIFAN), Katsina State, Alhaji Shuaibu Wakili, on Saturday urged Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia to…
2019 Hajj: Niger transports 2,200 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
The Niger State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has transported 2,200 pilgrims out of the 3,200 pilgrims expected to perform the…
2019 Hajj: 36,199 Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia
The number of Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the 2019 Hajj exercise rose to 36,199 in 74 flights on…
2019 Hajj: Clerics advise Nigerian pilgrims to be good ambassadors
Some Muslim clerics in Omu-Aran, Kwara, have advised Nigerian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia to be good ambassadors of Nigeria throughout…
Don’t involve yourselves in our politics, Saudi official warns pilgrims
The Chief Custodian of the holy mosques of Makkah and Madinah, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, has urged pilgrims currently performing…
NAHCON issues travel alert against Saudi’s MERS
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has issued a travel alert to Nigerian pilgrims against the spread of an…
Hold the sanctity of Madinah, Nigerian pilgrims urged
The Chief Imam at the Nigeria Force Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Yaaub Alhassan, on Sunday urged Nigerian pilgrims in Madinah to…
Kogi pilgrims pray for peaceful governorship election
Some pilgrims from Kogi have embarked on prayers in the Prophet’s mosque in Madinah, asking Allah to make the state’s…
Hajj update: Nigerian pilgrims visit Qu’ran exhibition centre
Nigerian pilgrims awaiting their transportation to Makkah from Madinah, in continuation of their Hajj rites on Saturday visited the Qu’ran…
2019 Hajj: 13,107 intending pilgrims arrive Madinah in 10 days
The flight of pilgrims from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia for the 2019 Hajj entered its eleventh day on Saturday with…
Be security conscious, NAHCON advices Nigerian pilgrims
Nigerian pilgrims to the 2019 Hajj have been advised to be security conscious as their movement from Madinah to Makkah…