Tag: Saudi Arabia
Saudi jails 13 for plan to attack US forces
A Saudi court has sentenced 13 people, including an Afghan and a Qatari, to between 18 months and 30 years…
Hajj: Borno awarded best behaved state in Saudi Arabia
Borno state pilgrims has emerged the best behaved Nigerian state in terms of pilgrims behaviour and sanitary condition during this…
Three Borno pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia
Alhaji Adamu Timta, Secretary of the Borno Amirul Hajj committee on Wednesday’ confirmed the death of three pilgrims from Borno…
Hajj: Last batch of Ogun pilgrims arrives Saudi Arabia
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The last batch of pilgrims from Ogun state early Monday arrived the city of Medina, Saudi Arabia to…
Kebbi airport transports 537 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
No fewer than 537 intending pilgrims from Kebbi were transported to Saudi Arabia through the newly constructed Sir, Ahmadu Bello…
Hajj: Kebbi processes visa for 2,500 pilgrims
The Kebbi State Pilgrims Welfare Agency says it has processed travel visa for 2,500 state’s intending pilgrims to enable them…
Saudi arrests 88 in ‘anti-terrorism’ drive
Saudi Arabia has arrested 88 suspected extremists, more than half of them ex-Qaeda detainees who had previously been released, the…
Saudi Arabia beheads 3 Syrian drug traffickers
Three Syrians convicted of drug trafficking were executed by the sword in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the interior ministry announced.…
Saudi suspends labour visas for nations hit by Ebola
Saudi Arabia has stopped granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the countries worst-hit by the deadly…
Saudi king warns West will be jihadists’ next target
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through…
Saudi set to generate $8.5 bn from hajj
Saudi Arabia could earn $8.5 billion from this October’s hajj, according to a study published on Monday, which predicted that…
Four Saudis beheaded for drug trafficking
Four Saudi men were decapitated by sword in Najran in the south west of the country on Monday after being…
Saudi beheads man for killing wife with axe
Saudi authorities beheaded a national on Monday after he was convicted of killing his wife with an axe in front…
Saudi beheads Yemeni for rape, murder
Saudi authorities beheaded a Yemeni Thursday for raping and murdering two women, the interior ministry said. Awadha Ahmed Salem was…
Ebola Virus Lands In Saudi Arabia, Nigerian Pilgrims Face Ban
Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra…
2 killed in Saudi gyrocopter crash
Two people aboard a gyrocopter were killed Sunday when the light aircraft crashed in the Saudi Red Sea city of…
Saudi MERS: Philippines urges its Muslims to abort Hajj
The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority on Thursday to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year…
Saudi king sacks deputy defence minister
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Saturday sacked the deputy defence minister, Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Abdul Aziz, just a…
Saudi beheads two for raping minors
Saudi authorities beheaded Wednesday two nationals convicted of raping minors in two separate cases, in one of which the culprit…
Saudi seizes half a tonne of cocaine
Customs officers have seized half a tonne of cocaine in Jeddah, on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, where drug…
Saudi calls for national consensus government in Iraq
Saudi Arabia called Monday for the quick formation of a national consensus government in Iraq, blaming Baghdad’s “sectarian” policies against…
Saudi MERS death toll rises to 163
Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the death toll in…
Saudi MERS kils 115, says ministry
Saudi health authorities announced on Monday that the death toll from the MERS coronavirus has reached 115 since the respiratory…
Etisalat raises 3 bn euros to buy Maroc Telecom stake
UAE telecommunications firm Etisalat announced Monday 28 April that it has raised 3.15 billion euros to fund the acquisition of…
Saudi Arabia: MERS Virus kills foreigner
A foreigner has died from MERS while eight people including five health workers have been infected in the Saudi city…
Cameron Orders Probe Of Muslim Brotherhood
British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into the activities of Muslim Brotherhood over concerns that the group…
Prince Moqren named heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia
Prince Moqren Bin Abdulaziz is the heir to the throne in Saudi Arabia. The 69 year old second deputy prime…
Saudi, UAE, Bahrain withdraw envoys from Qatar
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain said Wednesday they were withdrawing their ambassadors from Qatar for breaching…
Nigeria’s quota for 2014 hajj still 76,000 pilgrims
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), said on Sunday that slots for 2014 pilgrimage remained 76,000, as it was…
Saudi Arabia: 12 pilgrims killed in hotel fire
A fire killed 12 people and injured 130 others in a hotel where pilgrims had been staying in the Saudi…