{"id":119793,"date":"2024-05-27T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T09:54:23","slug":"hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"Hajj: Kaduna airlifts over 1,600 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has successfully airlifted over 1,600 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year\u2019s Hajj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>Yunusa Muhammad, the Public Relations Officer of the agency, stated this in a statement, saying that the latest batch, consisting of 515 pilgrims, departed on Sunday via Max Air, the official carrier for Kaduna pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the number of the latest departure, brings the total number of pilgrims transported from the state to 1,612.<\/p>\n<p>He said the intended pilgrims scheduled for the fourth flight are currently undergoing screening at the Hajj transit camp in Mando, Kaduna, and are set to depart today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has successfully airlifted over 1,600 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year\u2019s Hajj pilgrimage. Yunusa Muhammad, the Public Relations Officer of the agency, stated this in a statement, saying that the latest batch, consisting of 515 pilgrims, departed on Sunday via Max Air, the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":119792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,7638,96,254],"class_list":["post-119793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-hajj","tag-kaduna","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hajj: Kaduna airlifts over 1,600 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has successfully airlifted over 1,600 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hajj: Kaduna airlifts over 1,600 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kaduna State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has successfully airlifted over 1,600 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-27T07:39:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-27T09:54:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/05\/sm_1716787149.56398.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Hajj: Kaduna airlifts over 1,600 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-27T07:39:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-27T09:54:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\"},\"wordCount\":124,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/05\/sm_1716787149.56398.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"hajj\",\"Kaduna\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/hajj-kaduna-airlifts-over-1600-pilgrims-to-saudi-arabia\",\"name\":\"Hajj: Kaduna airlifts over 1,600 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia - 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