The last batch of Nigerian pilgrims to the 2025 Hajj exercise in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Musa Adamu from Ondo, returned to Nigeria on Thursday night, 65 days after the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) completed the outbound airlift of Nigerian pilgrims back home.
Adamu, who returned to the country through the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano in company with NAHCON’s Saudi Arabia Liaison Officer, Ustaz Abubakar Lamin, according to the Hajj commission, was hospitalised in Saudi Arabia during this year’s Hajj.
He returned home after being discharged from the hospital, where he was admitted in Makkah.
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The pilgrim and the accompanying NAHCON official were received by the Chairman, Ondo State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Adam Zikirullah Chandy, and the board’s Executive Secretary, Mohammad Muti’u Omoniyi, NAHCON Kano Zonal Office staff member, Salisu Gaya, and Adamu’s relatives.
The return of the pilgrims days after completion of the airlift of Nigerian pilgrims back home, according to NAHCON, was “a practical display of NAHCON’s consistent commitment to serving and caring for the Nigerian pilgrims efficiently and diligently as stipulated in its 2006 Act”.
NAHCON had on Wednesday, July 2 successfully concluded the return airlift of Nigerian pilgrims who participated in this year’s Hajj exercise in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The commission began the return journey of pilgrims from the states and the Armed Forces on Friday, June 13, four days after the completion of the spiritual exercise, which formally came to an end on Monday, June 9, when pilgrims completed the symbolic stoning of the devil at the Jamrat, though some had a day earlier completed the act and returned to Makkah.
The five-day spiritual exercise began on Wednesday, June 4, when all pilgrims departed Makkah for Mina, also known as Tent City.
A total of 1,673,230 pilgrims, including not less than 54,743 Nigerians, participated in this year’s Hajj from 171 countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Nigerian contingent was made up of 41,526 pilgrims from the states and the Armed Forces, and 13,217 from the private tour operators.
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