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  • 2,003 Kaduna pilgrims return home – Official

    The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board said 2,003 Kaduna pilgrims had returned home by Monday after successfully performing the 2018 hajj.

    The board Public Relations Officer, Malam Yunusa Abdullahi, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna.

    Abdullahi said the 5th flight arrived in the early hours of Monday with 509 pilgrims via Max airline.

    ‘‘Total number of flights recorded are five; Max Air two flights and returned 1,069, Med-View three flights and returned 934 pilgrims.

    ‘‘Total Kaduna pilgrims back home, 2,003,’’ he said.

    He said the 6th flight is expected on Tuesday via Max Air.

    He said all pilgrims were given five litres of Zamzam water while claiming their luggage at Hajj Transit Camp, Mando.

    Yunusa gave assurance that the remaining pilgrims would soon return home.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 3,238 pilgrims from Kaduna performed the 2018 hajj.

  • Court imprisons three vagrants for criminal trespass

    Court imprisons three vagrants for criminal trespass

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced three vagrants to three months imprison each for trespass.

    The convicts: Sani Yusuf, Yunusa Abdullahi, and Abbas Nafiu, all of Jabi Motor Park by Delta Line, Abuja, were convicted after they pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.

    The convicts were sentenced on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and attempt to commit theft.

    The judge, Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave each of the convict an option to pay N5, 000  fine, and warned them to desist from committing crime.

    The prosecutor, Dalhatu Zannah, had told the court that one Lawal Mohammed of Jabi Motor Park, Abuja, reported the matter at the Utako Police Station on Feb. 9.

    Zannah said that the convicts criminally trespassed into the park at about 3: a.m. and attempted to steal valuable items.

    He told the court that, when the vigilance group arrested the convicts they could not give  satisfactory account of themselves.

    The prosecution counsel said that the convicts made confessional statements during police investigations and the offences contravened Sections, 348 and 95 of the Penal Code.

    NAN

  • 5,286 pilgrims from Kaduna return home

    5,286 pilgrims from Kaduna return home

    The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that a total of 5,286  pilgrims have so far been transported back home in 10 flights since the end of the hajj.

    The Public Relations Officer of the board, Malam Yunusa Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday.

    Abdullahi said that a Med-view flight carrying the 12th batch with 449 pilgrims on board, landed at the State International Airport early on Monday morning.

    “Med-view Airline is allotted 2,776 pilgrims from the state to be transported back home,’’ he said.

    He said Max – Airline had already completed the transportation of the  3,937 pilgrims allotted to it back home.

    Abdullahi added that only 1,427 pilgrims were still in Saudi Arabia out of the 6,713 pilgrims that performed hajj from Kaduna State this year.

    The airlifting of Kaduna pilgrims back home is expected to end this week.

  • Hajj: 4,155 kaduna pilgrims return home

    Hajj: 4,155 kaduna pilgrims return home

    Hajj 4,155 The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Board on Thursday, said a total of 4,155 of its pilgrims have so far returned home.

    The Board Public Relation officer, Alhaji Yunusa Abdullahi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an telephone interview in Kaduna, that the pilgrims were transported back home in eight flights.

    Abdullahi said the 9th batch with 218 pilgrims returned early Thursday morning via Med-view airline.

    “Med-view airline is allotted 2,776 pilgrims from the state to be transported back home.

    “Max – airline has however completed transporting back home the 3,937 pilgrims allotted to them.

    “Max Air and Med-view are the official airlines that were engaged in transporting pilgrims from Kaduna State back home,” Abdullahi said.

    NAN reports that 6,713 pilgrims performed the 2017 Hajj from Kaduna State.

  • 5,571 Kaduna pilgrims airlifted to Saudi Arabia

    5,571 Kaduna pilgrims airlifted to Saudi Arabia

    A total of 5, 571 pilgrims from Kaduna State have been transported to Saudi Arabia for this year’s hajj.

    The Spokesman of the state Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board, Yunusa Abdullahi, said on Tuesday the pilgrims were transported in 14 flights.

    The spokesman said 3,931 males and 1,640 females were transported by two airlines engaged by the board.

    Abdullahi said Medview airline had so far transported 3, 362 pilgrims in 10 flights, leaving the firm with 1, 179 more intending pilgrims to complete the exercise.

    He also said Max Air had completed the transportation of all the 2,209 passengers allotted to the airline.

    Abdullahi said Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i had visited the hajj transit camp and expressed satisfaction with the operations.

    NAN

     

  • Hajj: Airlift of Kaduna pilgrims to commence Aug. 1 – Official

    Hajj: Airlift of Kaduna pilgrims to commence Aug. 1 – Official

    The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board on Monday said it would commence airlift of pilgrims from the state to Saudi Arabia on Aug. 1.

    Malam Yunusa Abdullahi, Public Relations Officer of the board, said in Kaduna that travel visa for over 5,000 pilgrims had been processed and the balance would be ready within the week.

    Abdullahi disclosed that 6,247 pilgrims had so far paid their hajj fare of over N1.53 million each.

    He disclosed that the remaining intending pilgrims that had not completed the payment have up to Friday, July 28, to do so.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that three airlines, Max Air, Azman and Med View airlines, would transport pilgrims from the state to Saudi Arabia.

  • Kaduna pilgrims to commence medical, pregnancy test

    Kaduna pilgrims to commence medical, pregnancy test

    The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, on Monday said it would commence medical and pregnancy test for intending pilgrims to this year’s hajj .

    Its Public Relation Officer, Yunusa Abdullahi, who made the disclosure in a statement said that female intending pilgrims would undergo pregnancy test, in addition to the general medical screening of all other pilgrims.

    The statement said that the pilgrims are to undergo medical screening this week in order to ascertain their health status before embarking on the life time journey.

    It warned that the medical screening was compulsory and the board would only accept result of screening conducted in government designated hospitals.

    “The medical and pregnancy tests are absolutely necessary and compulsory, so any pilgrim who refuses to undergo them can lose his or her Hajj seat”, the statement said.

    It also advised intending pilgrims to collect medical cards from their respective registration officers before going to the designated hospitals for the screening.

    NAN report that no few than 6,335 registered intending pilgrims are expected to perform hajj this year from the state.

  • Kaduna extends Payment of Hajj fares to June 16

    Kaduna extends Payment of Hajj fares to June 16

    The Kaduna State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has extended deadline for payment of Hajj fares by intending pilgrims to June 16.

    The extension is contained in a statement by Yunusa Abdullahi,the Public Relations Officer of the board, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Monday.

    It indicated that the extension followed appeals by intending pilgrims unable to meet the initial deadline.

    The board had earlier announced that those who had failed to register before last Friday’s deadline, would forfeit their chances of going on the pilgrimage.

    The statement said that the Overseer of the board, Imam Hussaini Tsoho urged the intending pilgrims to complete the payments as there would be no more extension.

    It explained that completing the payment on schedule would allow the board process visas and pay off its balance of the fare to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON).

    The statement stressed that pilgrims from the state would pay N1.53 million as Hajj fare this year.

    “Registered pilgrims in the state have already made deposits of between N800,000 and N1.2m with the Board.

    “About 6,327 intending pilgrims are expected to perform the 2017 Hajj from the state,” the statement added.