The first batch of Kwara hajj pilgrims has arrived.
The pilgrims arrived Ilorin on Wednesday, the Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board announced.
In a statement issued in Ilorin on Wednesday by the Press Secretary of the Board, Mrs Jumoke Jimoh, the pilgrims first landed at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, at 2:00 a.m.
The later moved to Ilorin.
Jimoh said that the NAHCON Zonal Coordinator for Kwara, Alhaji Ibrahim Fijabi, gave the number of the pilgrims that arrived as 272.
The statement reads in part: “The 272 first batch pilgrims was led by the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Alhaji Imam Bashir and the NAHCON Zonal Coordinator for Kwara, Ondo, and Ekiti State, Alhaji Ibrahim Fijabi among others.
“A total number of 272 pilgrims were aboard from Jeddah Airport on Tuesday apart from the NAHCON official team that were among the first batch.
“They arrived at Lagos around 2:00 a.m. and took off to Ilorin International Airport at 8: 30 a.m.”
