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The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima for their caller directive aimed astatine reducing the outgo of the 2026 Hajj exercise.
Vice President Shettima connected Monday during a gathering with the committee and absorption unit of NAHCON, acting connected the instructions of his principal, directed the committee to trim the fares for the 2026 Hajj workout wrong 2 days.
LEADERSHIP recalls that NAHCON had penultimate week announced authoritative fares for the 2026 Hajj, with intending pilgrims from North expected to wage N8.2m, portion Southern pilgrims are to wage N8.5m.
In a connection signed by Fatima Sanda Usara, Deputy Director of Information and Publications, connected behalf of the NAHCON absorption and made disposable to journalists connected Tuesday morning, NAHCON highlighted that the President’s directive to reappraisal Hajj fares downwards demonstrated a authorities that listens to and acts upon the concerns of its citizens. “It besides reflects a genuine knowing of the fiscal challenges galore Muslims look portion aspiring to undertake the ineffable pilgrimage,” Usara stated.
NAHCON besides praised the government’s encouragement for intending pilgrims and State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards to capitalise connected the caller appreciation of the Naira by making aboriginal remittances. Prompt action, arsenic emphasised by Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Ibrahim Hadeja, pursuing a gathering astatine the Presidential Villa, would alteration Nigeria to unafraid the advantages of the strengthened currency.
This directive, on with the proposal for aboriginal remittances, highlighted a keen consciousness of some NAHCON’s operational hurdles and the economical conditions affecting pilgrims. It serves arsenic different wide objection of a responsive and community-oriented medication providing applicable solutions, peculiarly for the Commission.
Furthermore, this inaugural underscored President Tinubu’s ongoing committedness to enhancing Hajj absorption successful Nigeria done measures that guarantee the process is much affordable, transparent, and well-coordinated.
NAHCON aims to collaborate intimately with each stakeholders to guarantee the effectual implementation of this directive, yet facilitating a creaseless and fulfilling 2026 Hajj acquisition for Nigerian pilgrims.
Consequently, NAHCON urges intending pilgrims to expedite their payments, arsenic details of the caller fare volition beryllium announced shortly. This timely enactment volition alteration their boards to marque aboriginal remittances, allowing the Central Bank of Nigeria to utilise the favourable speech complaint for Hajj services.
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