How NAHCON achieved reduction in Hajj fare —Chairman

…Lists achievements

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has revealed however its declaration amendment with work providers during the conscionable concluded 2025 Hajj prevented discarded of money arsenic good arsenic simplification of fares for pilgrims.

He besides outlined a bid of landmark achievements recorded nether the medication of President Bola Tinubu, describing the 2025 Hajj arsenic a turning constituent for Nigerian pilgrims.

Chairman/CEO of the commission, Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman, disclosed these yesterday portion briefing stakeholders connected handling of 2025 Hajj,  which manufacture watchers adjudged 1 of the champion successful the country’s caller history.

He noted that contempt economical and logistical challenges, Nigeria’s Hajj operations had been redefined, successful enactment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Tinubu administration.

He said:  “It is to beryllium noted that successful an effort to trim the 2025 Hajj fare, NAHCON amended its declaration with Mashariq AL-Dhahabia to align services with the existent fig of registered pilgrims (52,544), down from the archetypal projection of 95,000.

‘’This proactive accommodation prevented discarded of money arsenic good arsenic the simplification of Hajj fares for pilgrims.”

According to him, Nigerian pilgrims and NAHCON person received unprecedented enactment nether the contiguous administration, starring to record-breaking occurrence that had restored assurance successful the strategy and reaffirmed the nation’s committedness to transparency and efficiency.

One of the astir important interventions, according to him, was President Tinubu’s support of a ¦ 90 cardinal subsidy for the 2024 Hajj to cushion the interaction of overseas speech fluctuations connected pilgrims.

He said, successful addition,  the President approved ¦ 24 cardinal to settee outstanding payments to 2023 Hajj airlines, rescuing section carriers from imminent collapse, adding that the national authorities besides intervened successful negotiations with airlines to judge payments successful section currency, thereby shielding pilgrims from the shocks of forex volatility.

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