2013 HAJJ: FCT Muslim Pilgrims Board Announces Fare

The FCT Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has released the Hajj fare for this year’s pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
In a statement recently in Abuja by Muhammad Lawal, the board’s Public Relations Officer, the board said the maximum seat fare category for this year’s Hajj stood at N762,497.98.
It also said that the medium seat category was N684,497.98 while the minimum seat attracted N647,997.98.
It added that intending pilgrims from the FCT for this year’s hajj, who scaled through the balloting exercise conducted by the board recently, had up to Aug. 14 to pay the balance of the fare or lose the seat.
It explained that the measure had become necessary as the process of acquiring visa would soon commence and there was the need to pay the balance of the fare to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on schedule.
The board said that it had already secured uniforms, bags and other materials and would commence the distribution as soon as the intending pilgrims completed their payments.
The statement disclosed that the FCT had a total of 2,460 seats as its allocation from the commission for this year’s Hajj.
It stated that the board had also fixed Aug. 17 for enlightenment and orientation exercises in the six area councils of the FCT for intending pilgrims.