COVID-19: Niger Pilgrims Board Refunds N1.2bn Hajj Fares

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Niger State Pilgrim Welfare Board has refunded N1.229 500.00 hajj fares to 834 intending pilgrims who could not perform the 2020 and 2021 holy pilgrimage

The executive secretary of the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Umaru Maku Lapai, disclosed this yesterday to the Niger State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Minna.

According to him, the intending pilgrims who roll over their payment will be given priority to perform hajj from the state in the next hajj operation. He assured the reporters of building more robust relationship with the NUJ in the state adding that the board would soon embed media corps in its hajj operation just as it has done with medical team.

 

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