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Nigeria: 2025 Hajj: We saved N50bn for Nigerian pilgrims through negotiations — NAHCON chairman

Nigeria: 2025 Hajj: We saved N50bn for Nigerian pilgrims through negotiations — NAHCON chairman

Africa Links 24 with Saliu Gbadamosi
Published on 2025-02-02 13:53:29

Despite announcing over N8million as fare for this year’s Hajj exercise, the Chairman/CEO, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman, has said that the commission saved about N50billion for Nigerian pilgrims participating in the 2025 spiritual exercise through negotiations with Saudi Arabian service providers.

This is even as the NAHCON boss sought waivers on the two percent charge on remittances by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as well other aviation…

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