Hajj 2025 Airlift Dates Set: Pilgrims to Depart from May 9-24 Amid NAHCON's Final Preparations

Date: 2025-04-23

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has convened a meeting with executive secretaries of state Muslim Pilgrims' Welfare Boards, finalising plans to begin the airlift of intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia on 9 May 2025, with the last flight departing by 24 May 2025.

NAHCON Chairman Professor Abdullah Saleh Usman stated the commission is in the final stages of preparations for the 2025 Hajj season. He urged state welfare boards to provide updates on their readiness, including visa processing, vaccination programmes, luggage procurement, and other logistical arrangements.

During the meeting, NAHCON commissioner in charge of operations, Prince Anofiu Elegushi, said air peace has been assigned 5,128 pilgrims cumulative from Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, , Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Kogi, Ondo, Rivers, Taraba States and armed forces.

He added that flynas, on the other hand, was allocated 12,506 pilgrims from Federal Capital Territory (FCT Abuja), Kebbi, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Sokoto and Zamfara states.

He stressed that max air is to handle the airlift of pilgrims from Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kwara, Oyo and Plateau States.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Yusuf Ali     Ahmad Uthman     Ali Ahmad     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Saka Onimago     Sai Kayi     Kabir Shagaya     Moji Makanjuola     SWAN     Orisa Bridge     Garba Idris Ajia     Tanke Road     Olaiya Zuberu     Kwara University Of Education     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     ASKOMP     Adeola Abraham     Egbewole     Baakini     Idiagbon     Michael Ologundea     Edret Sabi Abel     Old Oyo     Iliasu     Ajidagba     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Ayegbeni     Amos Bajeh     Ajasse-Ipo     Alaaya     Adaramaja     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Government House     Wole Oke     Omotosho     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Vasolar Consultoria     Muslim Cementary     Sanitation Exercise     Yahaya Muhammad     Moses Salami     Ogidi-Oloje     Edu     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Okin Group     Abdulkadir Orire     Saka Abimbola Isau     Radio Kwara     2017 Budget     Mohammed Yisa     Abatemi-Usman     Sa\'adu Salahu     Ilorin Durbar     March 28     KWAFFA     Code Of Conduct     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Fareedah Dankaka     Aminu Adisa Logun     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Salaudeen Oyewale     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Olusola Saraki     Lanre Issa Onilu     Hamza Usman     Col. Adedipe     Awoye     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Split Diamond Interchange     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     IDPU    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara Central     Temitope Ogunbanke     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Isiaq Khadeejah     Dan Iya     Saliu Oluwole     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Amos Sayo     Sheriff Shagaya     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kale Ayo     April 11     Segun Adeniyi     Taofeek Ibraheem     Otoge     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Kwara State Football Association     Elerin Of Adanla     Lateef Alagbonsi     Kamaldeen Kehinde     CKNG     Shola Odetundun     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Ilorin Innovation Hub     ENetSuD     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Tunde Kazeem     Nagode     Sodiya     ITEM 7     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Temi Kolawole     Aliyu Muyideen     Magaji Nda     SSUCOEN     National Broadcasting Commission     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Crystal Corner Shops     Face Masks     ER-KANG Mining     Talaka Parapo     Dauda Adesola     Mustapha Olanipekun     Basit Olatunji     Oya State     Zaratu Umar     Simeon Sayomi     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Earlyon Technologies     Toyin Falola     Amuda Aluko     Igosun     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Adijat Adebiyi     Adekunle David Dunmade     Seni Saraki     General Hospital, Ilorin     Boko Haram     JAAC     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Logun     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Kwara Politics     Kwara 2019     Saliu Ajia     Binta Sulyman     Erubu Oba Zubair     Agboola Abdulraheem     NIRSAL