The Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs and Amir ul Hajj, Dr. AbdulHakeem AbdulLateef has stated that about 312 Lagos pilgrims will leave Makkah for Nigeria on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, aboard Medview Airline Airbus 777.
The Commissioner stated this during an interactive session with the pilgrims in Makkah after their successful completion of the pilgrims’ hajj exercise, stressing that he was extremely happy about the success and safety of all the pilgrims throughout the exercise.
He said: “I am particularly grateful to Allah for giving the officials and the pilgrims the grace to cooperate with one another for the success of this year’s Hajj operation”.
Abdul-Lateef also commended the good manner in which the pilgrims conducted themselves and the courtesy extended to the pilgrims by the officials in relating to them, adding that this is the first time Lagos pilgrims will spend less than 30 days in Saudi Arabia for Hajj exercise.“It is a wonderful development that Lagos pilgrims on the first flight here have just spent the 28th day for this holy pilgrimage. We are happy and hope it will continue”, the Commissioner declared.
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