Hajj 2023: NAHCON Completes 75 Flights with 31,629 Pilgrims in 12 Days
AREWA AGENDA – Less than two weeks after the official flag-off of the 2023 Hajj exercise by ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), sister agencies and airlines have so far airlifted 31,629 pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since the flag-off on Thursday May 25 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAHCON and other stakeholders have intensified the airlift of pilgrims to the Holy Land which is taking place simultaneously across the country.
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Since the commencement of the flights with Max Air Plane conveying over 400 Nasarawa pilgrims, 74 other flights have taken off from Abuja, Ilorin, Bauchi, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Lagos and other cities.
Aside from Max Air, other airlines that were engaged to convey pilgrims to the Holy Land include Flynas, Air Peace, Aero Contractors and Azman.
PRNIGERIA can report that with
Flynas flight XY5598 which departed Sokoto to Madinah at 21:17hrs on Tuesday with 426 Sokoto pilgrims (296 Males and 130 Females) and one official, 31,629 Nigerians have been conveyed to the Holy Land so far with a total number of 75 flights.
NAHCON boss, Alhaji Zikrullah Kunle Hassan, had told journalists after the inaugural flight ceremony that all Nigerian pilgrims would be airlifted within 25 days from 15 take-off points across the country.
The King Fahd International Airport, Jeddah, is expected to be shut on the 22nd of June, 2023.
