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Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the decision by the Kano state governor, Abba Yusuf, to subsidize the air fare to intending pilgrims from the state to perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia.   In a post shared on his handle this afternoon March 27, Governor Yusuf stated …

The Bayelsa Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has appealed to the State Government to deploy more personnel to the board to ease its operations. The board’s Executive Secretary, Mrs Amirah Dokubo-Asari, who made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said there are just two people …

Six of the 95,000 Nigerian pilgrims for this year’s hajj exercise have died in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) disclosed.    The head of NAHCON medical team for the pilgrimage, Dr. Usman Galadima, disclosed this in Makkah Saturday night, June 24, 2023.    …

As I heft the weight of the backpack on to my shoulders, I ask myself: am I too old for this? In my 20s I would regularly take off for days of wild camping, but now, in my 40s, I have accumulated more than a few aches from all those …

About 21 million Shia pilgrims from around the world gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday for the Arbaeen commemoration, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the 7th-century killing of Imam al-Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. The annual event sees men and women …

“Sola?” “Si, sola.” Wherever I went, I was asked the same question: are you alone? When I replied in the affirmative, people were shocked and disapproving. Lone female travellers are still rare in Sicily’s hinterland, and those on foot are rarer still. I was walking the Magna Via Francigena – …