Sokoto pilgrims’ board decries Hajj passport centralisation – Daily Trust

The Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency (PWA) has described the centralisation of Hajj passport issuance in Abuja and Lagos as a flat company, announcing the test now takes as much as 3 weeks as an alternative of the only week it in the past required.
The maturity of the financial, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, disclosed this whilst addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Sokoto on arrangements for the 2027 Hajj.
In a floor through the Head of Information and Communications of the financial, Faruku Umar, the financial boss appealed to the Comptroller General of Immigration to decentralise the passport issuance test, announcing the present association used to be inflicting delays in arrangements for the pilgrimage.
Meanwhile, he mentioned the financial has registered 3,058 intending pilgrims for the 2027 Hajj, together with the ones accommodated below the event 300 slots lately allotted to the claim through the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON).
He mentioned the event slots had been entrepreneur of the ten,000 allotted to Nigeria through the Saudi Arabian Government and disbursed to states around the nation and monetary operators through NAHCON.