{"id":162371,"date":"2025-05-13T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:07:06","slug":"nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others","title":{"rendered":"NSCIA warns 206 intending pilgrims from Edo against drug trafficking, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has warned the 206 intending pilgrims from the state for this year\u2019s Hajj to Saudi Arabia against dealing in drugs and other vices.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Alhaji Abdulaziz Igbinidu, the State Chairman of NSCIA, gave the advice in a message to the intending pilgrims scheduled to depart for the Hajj on May 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there are dos and don\u2019ts in Saudi Arabia. Once a pilgrim indulges in those things that are forbidden during pilgrimage, such a pilgrim will face the full wrath of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to you is that as you are going for Hajj, this time is to be a good ambassador of Edo State and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should shun drug peddling because some people that attempted to push drugs there in the past paid dearly for it. So, they should follow the rules in order not to be a disgrace to Edo State and Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, charged them to obey the rules and regulations of the host country so that they can perform the Hajj successfully and get full reward from Allah.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded them that there are some very important things that they must do to make the Hajj valid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should follow the advice of the officials that are accompanying you in order not to miss any of the compulsory aspects of the Hajj,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has warned the 206 intending pilgrims from the state for this year\u2019s Hajj to Saudi Arabia against dealing in drugs and other vices. DAILY POST reports that Alhaji Abdulaziz Igbinidu, the State Chairman of NSCIA, gave the advice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":162370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[5437,443,254,800],"class_list":["post-162371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-edo","tag-nigeria","tag-nscia"],"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>NSCIA warns 206 intending pilgrims from Edo against drug trafficking, others - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has warned the 206 intending pilgrims fr ...\" \/>\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\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NSCIA warns 206 intending pilgrims from Edo against drug trafficking, others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has warned the 206 intending pilgrims fr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-13T22:05:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-13T23:07:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747165066.061321.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NSCIA warns 206 intending pilgrims from Edo against drug trafficking, others\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-13T22:05:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-13T23:07:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\"},\"wordCount\":263,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747165066.061321.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"drug trafficking\",\"Edo\",\"Nigeria\",\"NSCIA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nscia-warns-206-intending-pilgrims-from-edo-against-drug-trafficking-others\",\"name\":\"NSCIA warns 206 intending pilgrims from Edo against drug trafficking, others - 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