{"id":120778,"date":"2024-06-04T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:08:04","slug":"strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","title":{"rendered":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ongoing transportation of Nigeria pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Assistant Director, Public Affairs, NAHCON, Mrs Fatima Usara, gave the advice in a statement on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Usara also emphasized the need for the NLC to respect the sensitivity of \u201cthis divine devotion and not to encroach on its movement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation reaching NAHCON indicates that there are plans by a section of the NLC to disrupt the ongoing Hajj operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is coming in spite of the initial understanding that Hajj flights would not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commission appreciates the concern of the NLC over the welfare of its members, however, NAHCON wants it to respect the sanctity of Hajj as a religious obligation which Muslims do not take lightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commission advises NLC to apply caution and not to tamper with the Hajj conveyance as a courtesy to the Muslim faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisruptive action against the smoothness of the operation will deprive intending muslims their fundamental right to worship considering the limited time left before closure of Jeddah and Madinah airports for the pilgrimage,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that no fewer than 65,500 Nigerians are expected to perform the 2024 pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>NAHCON records indicate that the commission has so far transported 38,805 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in 92 flights.<\/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 National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ongoing transportation of Nigeria pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The Assistant Director, Public Affairs, NAHCON, Mrs Fatima Usara, gave the advice in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Usara also emphasized the need for the NLC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":120777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[1570,2140,219,1197,254,1615],"class_list":["post-120778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-labour","tag-nahcon","tag-nigeria","tag-strike"],"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>Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...\" \/>\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\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"labour\",\"NAHCON\",\"Nigeria\",\"strike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\",\"name\":\"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":1440,\"caption\":\"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour - Nigeria","description":"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour","og_description":"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1440,"height":1440,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour","datePublished":"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2"},"wordCount":253,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","labour","NAHCON","Nigeria","strike"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","Policy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2","name":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg","datePublished":"2024-06-04T08:26:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-06-04T11:08:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has cautioned the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, against disrupting the ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1717482800.063312.jpg","width":1440,"height":1440,"caption":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/strike-dont-disrupt-transportation-of-pilgrims-nahcon-warns-labour-2#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Strike: Don\u2019t disrupt transportation of pilgrims \u2013 NAHCON warns Labour"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}