The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has allocated a total of 95,000 seats to the State Pilgrims Welfare Boards/Agencies/Commissions, SPWB, the Armed Forces and the Private Tour Operators for the 2017 Hajj exercise.
The 95,000 seats are an increase from the 76,000 overall seats that have been allocated to Nigeria in recent years.
The authorities in Saudi Arabia reduced the number of seats allocated to Nigeria and other countries in 2013 citing “the giant development projects currently being undertaken” in the Grand Mosque and other holy sites in the Kingdom.
Most of those projects have been completed now, hence the decision to restore Nigeria’s allocation.
A document obtained from the NAHCON showed that Kano State got the highest allocation of 6,602 seats, while Imo State got the lowest allocation with 47 seats.
The document also shows that the Armed Forces got 497 seats while the Independent Tour Operators got 20,000 seats.
The table of allocation to other states indicate that:
Abia 62
Adamawa 2,097
Akwa Ibom 60
Anambra 63
Bauchi 3,213
Bayelsa 81
Benue 390
Borno 2,786
Cross River 60
Delta 107
Ebonyi 97
Edo 294
Ekiti 209
Enugu 65
FCT 2,657
Gombe 2,205
Jigawa 2,677
Kaduna 6,327
Katsina 4,930
Kebbi 4,629
Kogi 838
Kwara 2,164
Lagos 3,957
Nasarawa 1,860
Niger 3,604
Ogun 1,353
Ondo 302
Osun 917
Oyo 1,363
Plateau 1,348
Rivers 375
Sokoto 5,571
Taraba 1,457
Yobe 2,256
Zamfara 4,496
Source-Premium Times
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