Nigeria has been able to beat the September 28 deadline for the closure of airport to traffic by the Saudi Arabian authorities for this year’s pilgrimage.
The National Hajj commission said today that 66,000 Nigerians have been successfully airlifted and are now in the Holy land for the hajj performance which begins on September 21 when the pilgrims would move to Minah.
According to the Chairman of the Commission, Abdullahi Mukhtar, the airlift was carried out in 160 air trips from across the Nigerian states with the last two airlift from Port Harcourt and Abuja. [myad]
