Pilgrimage

NAHCON Chairman Urges Media to Foster National Unity, Calls for Digitized and Humane Hajj Operations

In a compelling address delivered on Thursday, September 11, 2025, during the 2025 Post-Hajj Lectures and Awards ceremony organized by the Independ…

No pilgrimage to Israel until crisis is resolved-NCPC

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), has announced that there would be no further pilgrimage to Israel until the Israel/Iran conflict …

Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs visits pilgrims’ hotel affected by fire

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs has commended the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), for taking swift response and action in re…

Saudi authorities ban political, sectarian expressions at Hajj sites

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior has announced a strict ban on taking photographs, videos or raising political and sectarian expressions at main…

Governor Nasir Idris urges intending pilgrims to be law abiding

Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State has tasked intending pilgrims from the state to respect both Saudi Arabian and Nigerian laws during their spiri…

2025 Hajj: 1,622 Nigerian pilgrims leave for Madinah

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) says a total of 1,622 Nigerian pilgrims have been transported to Madinah for the 2025 Hajj operatio…

Saudi Arabia suspends visa for Nigeria, 13 other countries ahead of 2025 Hajj

Saudi Arabia has announced a temporary suspension on issuing new short-term visas including business visit visas (both single and multiple-entry), …

Millions of Muslim pilgrims performing annual Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia

Muslim pilgrims sit and circumambulate around the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca,…

More than 1.4 million Muslims arrive in Saudi Arabia for Hajj: Officials

Muslim worshipers pray at the Ka’aba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca on June 23, 2017. (Photo by …

Qatar censures Saudi Arabia’s offer to transport pilgrims to Mecca

This file photo taken on June 18, 2017 shows a Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300 being moved on the Tarmac of Le Bourget airport on the eve of the openi…

Qatar denies blocking Saudi Arabian flights for Hajj

This file photo shows a passenger jet operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines. Qatar denies having banned Saudi flights from landing in the emirate to…

Saudi Arabia ‘politicizing’ Hajj pilgrimage: Qatari group

Muslim pilgrims from all around the world circle around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2016.…

'Deal reached after Saudis submitted to Iran's Hajj conditions'

Seyyed Ali Qazi-Askar, the representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Hajj and pilgrimage affairs A seni…

Iran holds second round of Hajj talks with Saudi Arabia

A file photo of pilgrims around Ka’aba at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia An Iranian delegation, which is currently in S…

Iran to send pilgrims to Hajj if Saudi Arabia accepts Tehran’s conditions: Minister Reza Salehi-Amiri

People perform Hajj rituals around the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (File Photo) Iran will send pilgrims to…

Iran confirms receiving Saudi invitation for Hajj talks

Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Ali Qazi-Askar, the representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for Hajj and pilgrimage a…

Saudi Arabia should account for Mina hajj tragedy: Iran

Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations says Saudi Arabia has …

Double-decker boat transporting Muslim pilgrims capsizes in Thailand, 13 killed

A double-decker boat transporting Muslim pilgrims on Thailand's Chao Phraya River has capsized and more than a dozen people have died. Udoms…

Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest nine Shia Bahraini Hajj pilgrims

Muslim pilgrims prepare themselves for Friday prayers in front of the Ka’aba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy ci…

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