NAHCON to hold national Hajj, Umrah stakeholder’s conference

Th e National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has said that it would soon hold National Hajj and Umrah Stakeholder’s Conference to enhance hajj management and operations in the country. Chairman, Planning Committee of the conference, Alhaji Suleiman Usman, made the disclosure in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), yesterday in Abuja.

NAN reports that the theme of the conference is “Hajj Management in Nigeria: Honouring the past, treasuring the present and shaping the future”. According to Usman, the conference would be declared open by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III on July 1st at the National Mosque, Abuja. He said that invited dignitaries from State Pilgrims Welfare Boards, Agencies, Tour Operators, and Aviation Industry Professionals, past Nigerian Ambassadors and Consult Generals as well as members of Ulamah are expected to attend the event.

Th e planning committee chairman also said that the conference would mark the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of NAHCON, which had revolutionised hajj and umrah operations in the country. Alhaji Abdulfattah Abdulmajeed, President, Association for Hajj and Umrah Operators of Nigeria (AHUON), said that the emergence of NAHCON in 2007, ensured sanity in the hajj and umrah sector. Abdulmajeed, said that since the inception of the commission Nigerian pilgrims were no longer stranded in Saudi Arabia during hajj operations, because deadline for transportation of pilgrims were met. He added that because of NAHCON`s commitment, Nigeria Hajj Mission emerged one of the best three countries during the 2016 hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NAHCON was established in 2007 by the National Assembly to licence, regulate, perform oversight, and undertake supervisory functions over agencies and other bodies who are into hajj and umrah business.

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