A total of 95,000 Muslim pilgrims from Nigeria are to perform the 2012 Hajj.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammad Bello, Chairman, National Hajj Commission, said this on Thursday at a meeting with the Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje-led House Committee on Foreign Affairs in Abuja.
Bello, who briefed the committee on the 2011 Hajj, said the update on arrangements was necessary so as to have a hitch free exercise.
He said the number was
4,000 lower than the allocation Nigeria got in 2011, adding that 10,000
of the figure were allotted to private Hajj operators in the country while the commission and the state pilgrim boards would share the remaining 85,000 slots.
The NAHCON boss, who
attributed the shortfall to lack of space and facilities in the Holy
land, said the commission was still in talks with the Saudi authorities
on the possibility of getting more slots to cater for the huge requests
for Hajj seats in the country.
In the allocation for the 2012 Hajj, Bello said the least number of 80 slots went to Abia, while Kaduna State had the highest of 7,560 and Kano State, 6,778.
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