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President Bola Tinubu has directed the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to instantly trim the outgo of the 2026 Hajj fares that it had precocious announced.
The Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Senator Ibrahim Hadeija, made this known portion briefing State House Correspondents aft a gathering with NAHCON officials held astatine the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NAHCON, aft owed consultations with each applicable stakeholders, announced the 2026 Hajj fare arsenic follows: the Maiduguri-Yola Zone (comprising Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, and Taraba) volition wage N8,318,336.67.
Others are: Northern States volition wage N8,244,813.67, portion Southern States volition wage N8,561,013.67, respectively.
However, Hadeija said Tinubu felt the request for the committee to look astatine the anticipation of reducing the hajj fare.
He said, ” This gathering was fundamentally called astatine the lawsuit of His Excellency, the Vice-President, to look astatine the anticipation of reducing the Hajj fare for the 2026 pilgrimage.
“As you know, the hajj fare constituent is astir 95 percent and 96 percent overseas exchange-based.
“The fares announced by the NAHCON were based connected a precise pessimistic speech complaint of N1,550.
“And the rates person continued to amended steadily with the naira appreciating based connected the effects of the economical reforms of the authorities that person taken place.”
Hadeija stated that the vice-president felt that, if during the past hajj pilgrimage, pilgrims had paid betwixt N8.5 and N8.6 cardinal based connected a antagonistic speech rate, present that the speech complaint had improved, they would beryllium capable to wage less.
He continued, “Then we should besides walk the benefits to them, and each the officers of the Hajj committee are here, and they person been told to instantly spell to look astatine much realistic speech rates.
“If they apply, we should beryllium capable to bring the hajj fare to N7.6 to N7.7 million.
“The last fig volition beryllium announced successful the adjacent 2 days.
“But this is besides babelike connected precise speedy remittance of the funds from the State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Boards.
“The faster the pilgrims wage their hajj fares and they are remitted to the hajj commission, the faster they tin walk it to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to bargain the dollars for them.
“So. If we execute that, we for spot a concern pilgrims this twelvemonth volition person a precise important simplification successful the Hajj rate.”
On his part, the Chairman of the Kebbi Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Faruk Yaro, expressed gratitude to Tinubu and Shettima for their timely intervention.
He said, “We are precise blessed due to the fact that the president and the vice-president person already intervened.
“We convey God for what they person done, which is expected to bring down the outgo of hajj fare. “
Also, the Secretary of NAHCON, Dr Mustapha Mohammad, said, “It is simply a invited improvement and the little the hajj fare is, the much Muslims volition person the accidental of performing the hajj.
“So, arsenic directed by the vice-president, we volition enactment tirelessly betwixt contiguous and time to spot that we trim it to an affordable complaint wherever each and each Muslim volition person the accidental to execute this precise important pillar of Islam.”
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