Nigeria: Yobe Gives 2500 Rams to Pilgrims for Hajj Rituals

17 December 2007

Maiduguri — Yobe State government has donated 2500 rams to the state's pilgrims already in Saudi Arabia for sacrifice day after Arafat.

Executive Secretary, Yobe State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Babagana Kyari, in Mecca told Daily Trust, over the telephone, that Governor Mamman Ali gave approval for the procurement and distribution of a ram to each member of the state's delegation which is to be used as sacrifice (Hadaya).

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