58% Nigerian pilgrims now in Saudi Arabia —NAHCON

THE National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, said 37,388 out of the 65,271 intending Nigerian pilgrims for the 2017 Hajj had been transported to Saudi Arabia as of Wednesday, August 16.

NAHCON’s Head Operations, Abudullahi Modibbo, disclosed this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.

Modibbo, who presented the statistics of carrier flight performance for this year exercise, said the 37,388 represents 58 per cent of the intending pilgrims. He said that the remaining 27,883 (42 per cent) would be transported before August 26 by four carriers commissioned by NAHCON for the exercise.

According to him, transportation of intending pilgrims commenced on July 30 and the exercise will end on August 25 or 26.