HAJJ: Muslim Pilgrims Conned, Stranded In Lagos Airport (MMIA)

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No fewer than 150 intending pilgrims to the year's hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia were left stranded at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos following their inability to show evidence of getting a secured travel visa for the journey to the Holy Land.

It had been gathered that the pilgrims, mostly from Ogun, Osun and Oyo states have been defrauded by a travel agent hired to secure travel visa, airfares and accommodation for them during Saudi Arabia.

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Remember Nigeria In Prayers,” Mark Tells Pilgrims Travelling To Jerusalem

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President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday, urged Nigerian pilgrims to this year’s pilgrimage in the Holy City of Israel to pray fervently for the country.

Mark made these charges while addressing the pilgrims from St. Mulumba’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Apo, Abuja, ahead of their airlift to the Holy City. He warned the pilgrims that pilgrimage was not a tea party but a place for a total communion with God. Mark also urged them to remember the nation in prayers so that God would end the insecurity and other challenges facing the country.