NAHCON screens first batch of Pilgrims

National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, Kogi State Pilgrim officials, Security agents and other aviation officials have started screening the first batch of Nigerian pilgrims from Kogi State expected to flagg off this year’s airlift to the Holy land.
The over four hundred pilgrims and officials were seen on queues at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja, being attended to, by officials concerned, to get them ready for the inaugural flight that is expected to take off anytime after eleven o’clock this morning.

Our reporter gathered that federal, state government officials and the NAHCON Chairman, Barrister Abdullah Mukhtar Muhammad are expected to address the pilgrims before boarding and take off.
It could be recalled that NAHCON, had fixed today, Saturday the twenty first of this month to start the airlift of Nigerian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.
Bilkisu Pai