First Flight Of Bauchi Pilgrims Back Home Monday

By Khalid Idris Doya

All arrangements have been concluded to commence airlifting the first batch of Bauchi state pilgrims back home on Monday. 

A statement issued to journalists by spokesperson of the state 2024 Amirul-Hajj Team, Alhaji Yayanuwa Zainabari, said the first flight of about five hundred pilgrims have performed Dawaful Al-ifadah to mark the end of their stay in Makkah.

He said already luggages of the pilgrims are taken to King Albdul’aziz International Airport Jeddah after scaling through the screening process.

Zainabari said arrangements have been made to use eighteen seater buses for conveyance of the pilgrims to the airport at the early hours of tomorrow Monday.

Yayanuwa, while speaking on the schedule for the subsequent flights, said screening of the second and third flights is ongoing as their departure time would be announced soon.

He commended the pilgrims for complying with the authorities through sticking to the approved kilograms of big and small luggages and avoidance of carrying prohibited properties.