₦airaland Forum

MrIrohKenedy:
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Stop making sense
we know you for talking Nonsense
stop pretending to make sense

This is the Best Quote I've seen Today!

Statsocial:
There are many mad people governing Nigeria. That money can empower 130,000 entrepreneurs with a million naira grant which can boost the economy, remove folks from "job seeker" to "self employed" and those SMEs also have the potential of employing at least two people.

Religion doesn't generate 1 naira for Nigeria yet ppl would still carry our small money and give it to Saudi. Religion is personal and everyone should care out his religious obligatons at his/her personal cost.

omenkaLives:
You people always seem to be the first to take shots. When they come pounding your head now, you'd tuck your tail between your legs crying "everybody hates us for no reason".

Smh.

SaiNigeria:
Hope Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states weren't among them cos it will be an injustice if they are going by the hunger in their respective lands

Redoil:
Omenkalives do you notice that 99.5% of the state mention are apc the so called progressive and the prosperous party that lied to nigerians in their cv?
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abouzaid:
only in the zoo. Nigeria subsidizes forex for pilgrimages but refused to do the same for Nigerians studying abroad.

Narldon:



This is the Best Quote I've seen Today!

Augiiee:
Must they study abroad?

ElderlyPerson:
Hope Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states weren't among them cos it will be an injustice if they are going by the hunger in their respective lands.
Must you exhibit that your insensibility and inferiority of your useless clans hereYour foolishness is like peak milk(it's in you).

olajizz01:
U are not making sense at all,almost all pdp state were in SS and SE and they were virtually christains.

bonylaxxy:
Religion is the problem of this country

Statsocial:
Gbenro Adeoyeand

Jesusegun Alagbe


At least N136.5bn has been spent on Hajj in 2017 by state governments and individuals despite the current recession in the country,Saturday PUNCHinvestigation has revealed.

According to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, no fewer than 91,000 Nigerians had arrived in Saudi Arabia out of the over 1.7 million foreign pilgrims in the country to perform this year’s Hajj. Meanwhile, the average Hajj fare approved by NAHCON to states for each traveller is N1.5m.


For example, information made available by NAHCON showing the approved 2017 Hajj seats and fares per state disclosed the package for travellers from Nasarawa State as N1,544,659.85; Niger, N1,525,483.30; Ondo, N1,485,096.07; Katsina, N1,498,502.70; Bauchi, N1,523,122.41; Plateau, N1,529,036.80; Sokoto, N1,521,461.65; and Kwara, N1,501,571.27, among others.


Therefore, at an average fare of N1.5m, 91,000 Nigerians would have spent a minimum of N136.5bn on the exercise, with part of it coming from public purse provided by state governments.


Although going on Hajj at least once in a lifetime is one of the five pillars of Islam, the Quran described it as a religious obligation that is meant for the faithful who can afford it. Meanwhile, visiting Jerusalem for pilgrimage is not an obligation for Christians.


However, state governments have been sponsoring people to Mecca and Jerusalem for pilgrimage andSaturday PUNCHhas information that Katsina, Bauchi, Plateau and Sokoto states had sponsored people on pilgrimage this year.


For instance, Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State recently disclosed that his administration had been subsidising Hajj exercise for Muslims with N1bn annually.
Masari, while inaugurating an 18-member board for the Katsina State Pilgrims’ Welfare Board, had said no amount spent on religious activities could be considered as too much and described pilgrimage to Mecca as “neither a picnic nor a holiday, but an act of worship, as enshrined in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad.”


Similarly, the Bauchi State Government spent over N262,650,000 as subsidy on the state’s Muslim pilgrims to this year’s Hajj.
Governor Mohammed Abubakar had disclosed this while delivering his farewell address to 3,090 pilgrims, where he boasted that the state could afford the sponsorship despite economic recession.


“Despite the economic hardship situation, this administration has continued to fund the operation of the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, both at home and at the holy land, so as to guarantee your comfort and satisfaction.
“We have also subsidised the cost of your accommodation in Mecca, upon which the government had to pay at least the sum of 850 Saudi Riyals (N85,000) for each of you so that you will be accommodated in a beautiful edifice close to the Haram,” Abubakar had said.


Also this year, the Plateau State Government went back on its 2015 decision to no longer sponsor both Muslims and Christians on pilgrimage due to the dwindling economic fortune of the state.


It was reported that the state government had sponsored 616 Muslims for the 2017 Hajj, with the state governor, Simon Lalong, saying at a farewell ceremony for the pilgrims from the state that the state government was willing to make the “sacrifice as a result of the relevance of holy pilgrimage to the citizens of the state.”


The Sokoto State Government had spent N91m to sponsor 90 Islamic clerics to the lesser Hajj in June.


The state Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Katami, had also announced that each of the benefiting clerics was entitled to a Basic Travelling Allowance of N250,000.
State governments’ sponsorship of pilgrimage has been going on for long. Last year, the Executive Secretary, Taraba State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Umar Leme, said the state government had released N288.5m to sponsor about 166 persons on Hajj.


http://punchng.com/despite-recession-states-others-spend-over-n136-5bn-on-hajj/

Lalasticlala

Statsocial:
Gbenro Adeoyeand

Jesusegun Alagbe


At least N136.5bn has been spent on Hajj in 2017 by state governments and individuals despite the current recession in the country,Saturday PUNCHinvestigation has revealed.

According to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, no fewer than 91,000 Nigerians had arrived in Saudi Arabia out of the over 1.7 million foreign pilgrims in the country to perform this year’s Hajj. Meanwhile, the average Hajj fare approved by NAHCON to states for each traveller is N1.5m.


For example, information made available by NAHCON showing the approved 2017 Hajj seats and fares per state disclosed the package for travellers from Nasarawa State as N1,544,659.85; Niger, N1,525,483.30; Ondo, N1,485,096.07; Katsina, N1,498,502.70; Bauchi, N1,523,122.41; Plateau, N1,529,036.80; Sokoto, N1,521,461.65; and Kwara, N1,501,571.27, among others.


Therefore, at an average fare of N1.5m, 91,000 Nigerians would have spent a minimum of N136.5bn on the exercise, with part of it coming from public purse provided by state governments.


Although going on Hajj at least once in a lifetime is one of the five pillars of Islam, the Quran described it as a religious obligation that is meant for the faithful who can afford it. Meanwhile, visiting Jerusalem for pilgrimage is not an obligation for Christians.


However, state governments have been sponsoring people to Mecca and Jerusalem for pilgrimage andSaturday PUNCHhas information that Katsina, Bauchi, Plateau and Sokoto states had sponsored people on pilgrimage this year.


For instance, Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State recently disclosed that his administration had been subsidising Hajj exercise for Muslims with N1bn annually.
Masari, while inaugurating an 18-member board for the Katsina State Pilgrims’ Welfare Board, had said no amount spent on religious activities could be considered as too much and described pilgrimage to Mecca as “neither a picnic nor a holiday, but an act of worship, as enshrined in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad.”


Similarly, the Bauchi State Government spent over N262,650,000 as subsidy on the state’s Muslim pilgrims to this year’s Hajj.
Governor Mohammed Abubakar had disclosed this while delivering his farewell address to 3,090 pilgrims, where he boasted that the state could afford the sponsorship despite economic recession.


“Despite the economic hardship situation, this administration has continued to fund the operation of the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, both at home and at the holy land, so as to guarantee your comfort and satisfaction.
“We have also subsidised the cost of your accommodation in Mecca, upon which the government had to pay at least the sum of 850 Saudi Riyals (N85,000) for each of you so that you will be accommodated in a beautiful edifice close to the Haram,” Abubakar had said.


Also this year, the Plateau State Government went back on its 2015 decision to no longer sponsor both Muslims and Christians on pilgrimage due to the dwindling economic fortune of the state.


It was reported that the state government had sponsored 616 Muslims for the 2017 Hajj, with the state governor, Simon Lalong, saying at a farewell ceremony for the pilgrims from the state that the state government was willing to make the “sacrifice as a result of the relevance of holy pilgrimage to the citizens of the state.”


The Sokoto State Government had spent N91m to sponsor 90 Islamic clerics to the lesser Hajj in June.


The state Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Katami, had also announced that each of the benefiting clerics was entitled to a Basic Travelling Allowance of N250,000.
State governments’ sponsorship of pilgrimage has been going on for long. Last year, the Executive Secretary, Taraba State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Umar Leme, said the state government had released N288.5m to sponsor about 166 persons on Hajj.


http://punchng.com/despite-recession-states-others-spend-over-n136-5bn-on-hajj/

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