President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special exchange rate for this year’s Christian pilgrimage to Israel.

The Executive Secretary, the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy-Opara, disclosed this to State House correspondents shortly after briefing the President of the commission’s activities inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Kennedy-Opara said Buhari has approved the rate of N160 to $1 for those who will take part in the exercise.

He said, “The President has approved $1 to N160 for the conventional exchange rate for this pilgrimage operation and he also agreed that he will continue to encourage us particularly as we drive to ensure self-sustenance, to make sure that the pilgrims are able to pay for the pilgrimages after removing government sponsorship.

“This is a journey and we are sure that we are going to succeed. So the President was very happy with the entire process.

“We are praying that God will help us to be a source of strength to Mr. President, so that the Federal government and states will spend the necessary resources on other things while the pilgrimage is self-funding as time goes on.”

Kennedy-Opara said the President was happy with commission after his presentation.

He said the commission was already running four different kinds of pilgrimages in one year.

He listed them to include Easter pilgrimage; the youth pilgrimage tagged “Operation catch them young”; the family pilgrimage and the main pilgrimage.

He said those going to Israel for the 11 days trip will pay N379,840, while the youth pilgrimage will cost N357,000.

“The beauty of what we are doing is that we have added skill acquisition. In other words, people who go on pilgrimage can undergo the skill acquisition programme organised by the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission and Ministry of Agriculture, Israel to train our people in the area of agriculture.

“We are also introducing the pilgrimage pilot lottery scheme that will enable people who are lucky to be able to go on this trip without much dependence on the state and the Federal Government,” he added.

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-approves-n160-to-1-for-christian-pilgrims/

Our president is working!! Up change!!

Owkay

BoiGrammz:
Our president is working!! Up change!!

You ehhh.....

Baba going steady....

I keep loving him more

Slow and wise

From baba go slow to baba steady ......... As long as he works, I'm happy

Me too am a pilgrim oooo. I wantu do do pilgrimage on the holy site of aliexpress...... DoesDoes it apply to us as well?

BUHARI APPROVES BUHARI HAS NOW BECOME A CURRENCY TRADER. NIGERIA E DON HAPPEN.

PEOPLE REMEMBER THE INTERBANK RATE IS 198 AND THE PLACE WHERE MOST OF US GET OUR FOREIGN CURRENCY IS 236 TO A DOLLAR. YET THE FUHRER BUHARI HAS DECIDED TO RESET THE NUMBER TO 160. THIS COUNTRY IS DEFINITELY SCREWED.

Impressive.

All those that called PMB a religious bigot should eat their words after dipping it in a bowl of battery water.

Carry on my considerate President, Nigerians are behind you.

fulanimafia:
Impressive.

All those that called PMB a religious bigot should eat their words after dipping it in a bowl of battery water.

Carry on my considerate President, Nigerians are behind you.

Its Christians that produce the nations wealth, Buhari's not doing us a favour, he has no alternative.

Who born monkey?

Mogidi:


Its Christians that produce the nations wealth, Buhari's not doing us a favour.

This is economic sabotage, only the almajiri pretenders see anything good here.

atlwireles:
BUHARI APPROVES BUHARI HAS NOW BECOME A CURRENCY TRADER. NIGERIA E DON HAPPEN.

PEOPLE REMEMBER THE INTERBANK RATE IS 198 AND THE PLACE WHERE MOST OF US GET OUR FOREIGN CURRENCY IS 236 TO A DOLLAR. YET THE FUHRER BUHARI HAS DECIDED TO RESET THE NUMBER TO 160. THIS COUNTRY IS DEFINITELY SCREWED.

I dont think you comprehend what the news is all about.

You cant just say thrash all the time.

Please make some sense even if it's once in a while

Mogidi:


Its Christians that produce the nations wealth, Buhari's not doing us a favour.

How about we Christians in the North that produce the nation's food? We still appreciate this act which will make our pilgrimage easier.

Have you gotten the battery water?

Keep wailing Moses

atlwireles:


This is economic sabotage, only the almajiri pretenders see anything good here.

Nigeria has lost Billions over the years pandering to religious zealots.

ULSHERLAN:



I dont think you comprehend what the news is all about.

You cant just say thrash all the time.

Please make some sense even if it's once in a while

What's the news about alamjiri, please tell me.

Jerusalem and Mecca deceiving gullible Nigerians since 22BC! It's about time this nonsense is stopped.

Bad news for taniods. How will they sleep this night?

Its excursion nt pilgrimage

I don't know what to make of this thread.

President Buhari has reduced himself to bureau de change agents.

Is CBN and the Forex his personal property for him to dish out at his mercy and favour?

Please, President Buhari build institutions to deepen our democracy and stop these irrational decisions.

This is an unprecedented feat. Buhari is awesome, amazing, the best ever. saTANists, don't kill yourselves this night, please.

Why is Mr President using our scarce FX to support tourism activities?

This is not commendable in anyway.

It time we stop this government sponsored pilgrimages please

there is nothing commendable about this decision. pilgrimage is another avenue for stealing our public funds.Pmb you fall my hand for this one o,you want to use our scarce resources to pay the FX difference of some tourists?

fulanimafia:


How about we Christians in the North that produce the nation's food? We still appreciate this act which will make our pilgrimage easier.

Have you gotten the battery water?

Keep wailing Moses

Abeg Fashi dem wailers. They will never see nothing good in Buhari. Am pretty damned sure the Christian pilgrims will appreciate this gesture and thank him for it.

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