Religion (Page 10)

By Ahmed Ubandoma The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), says it has so far transported 28, 612 pilgrims back home in 59 flights. According to its command and control centre in Makkah monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday, the latest returnees were 531Continue Reading

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has so far transported 2,737 people back to Nigeria out of some 45,450 Nigerians, who performed hajj in Saudi Arabia this year. Four hundred and twenty eight pilgrims from Lagos State and four from Oyo State departed Jedda on Tuesday aboard a Flynas Airways flightContinue Reading

By Usman Aliyu An Ibadan-based Islamic cleric, Alhaji Abubakar Umar-Erubu, has advocated death penalty for anyone found culpable of corrupt practices and kidnapping in the country. Umar-Erubu made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ilorin. The cleric said that the call becameContinue Reading

By Dada Ahmed No fewer than 80 Ulamas (clerics) will preach to Nigerian pligrims on hajj ethics as they joined over 1.8 million other pilgrims from across the world in Muna on Friday. The pilgrims would be in Muna for three days to under go series of hajj rites culminatingContinue Reading

The annual hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia’s city of Mecca is one of five pillars of Islam that all Muslims who are able to are expected to complete at least once. More than two million believers from across the planet converge for several days of rituals beginning on Friday thatContinue Reading

The Saudi authorities have introduced electronic system into the stoning of the three devils at Muna after Arafat day. This is to monitor movement of pilgrims to ensure orderliness and check stampede in the 2019 pilgrimage. The Representative of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) in the Kingdom ofContinue Reading