The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, yesterday urged 290 pilgrims departing the territory for Jordan and Israel to remember that a holy pilgrimage is neither a jamboree nor tourism. She said a holy pilgrimage should be a spiritual call to strengthen one’s faith and to attain a new level of spirituality and responsibility. Mahmoud spoke …

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) will on 22 December airlift 10,000 Christians who registered for this year’s holy pilgrimage to Jordan. Each of the intending pilgrims paid N3 million, amounting to N30 billion by the Nigerian contingent. The NCPC’s Executive Secretary, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, disclosed this to The PUNCH on Sunday. Responding by text message to enquiries by The …

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has airlifted over 16,000 pilgrims in the first ten days since the commission began airlift of pilgrims to the Holy Land for the 2024 Hajj exercise. This year’s inaugural flight of the 2024 intending pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday the 16th of May 2024, after taking off from the Sir Ahmadu …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a nine-man board for the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), with Colonel Aloche Adole, as Chairman. According to a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the board also has Dr Stephen Adegbite as Secretary. President Tinubu charged members of the new board to see their …