Saudi Insists on Deporting Female Nigerian Pilgrims
The Saudi Arabia authorities have ignored Nigeria's ultimatum and have deported more female pilgrims, mainly from Sokoto, Jigawa and Kano states.
Saudi deportees
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Nigeria: Saudi-Arabia Deports More Nigerian Women Pigrims
Vanguard, 28 September 2012
Saudi Arabia yesterday ignored protests by the Nigerian government over the deportation of female pilgrims to the holyland as the Saudi authorities deported another batch of 510 ... read more »
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Nigeria: FG Delegation Off to Saudi Arabia On Pilgrim Rescue Mission
This Day, 28 September 2012
A Federal Government delegation, headed by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, is expected to leave Nigeria Friday for Saudi Arabia to discuss with that ... read more »
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Nigeria: Saudis Block Nigerian Envoy From Detained Pilgrims
Daily Trust, 28 September 2012
Saudi Arabia immigration officials yesterday denied Nigeria's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Bunu and other consular officials, access to the detained Nigerian ... read more »
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Nigeria: Reactions Trails Return of Female Pilgrims From Saudi Arabia
Vanguard, 27 September 2012
Mixed reactions from across the states trail the plight of the Nigerian female Muslim pilgrims who were denied entry into Saudi Arabia by its authorities because they were not ... read more »
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Nigeria: Mixed Reactions Trail Return of Female Pilgrims From Saudi Arabia
Leadership, 27 September 2012
Mixed reactions from across the states trail the plight of the Nigerian female Muslim pilgrims who were denied entry into Saudi Arabia by its authorities because they were not ... read more »
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Nigeria: Sokoto - 102 Pilgrims Deported From Saudi Arabia
Leadership, 27 September 2012
About 102 intending pilgrims from sokoto state were deported from kingdom of Saudi yesterday. The Chairman of the Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency, (SSPWA) disclosed this in an ... read more »
InFocus
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The government have decided to send a delegation to interface with the Saudi authorities over the issues surrounding the detained Nigerian female pilgrims. Read more »
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Nigerian diplomats are trying to stop the deportation of the 400 female Nigerian pilgrims who were detained by the Saudi officials. Read more »
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It is unfortunate that our Moslem brothers don't understand the trick behind all these manipulations. We are honest and naïve people, so any one can use religion and God to dishonestly and fraudulently subject our consciousness to slavery. Even with the level of poverty in Northern Nigeria, people starve themselves for months if not years, preparing for these religious trips; and at the end billions of dollars are being transferred to Saudi Arabia in the name of pilgrimage, only to be dehumanized and humiliated to all forms of insults. All we need to do now is, search our history, and locate a holy land in Northern Nigeria, promote it very well, and celebrate it for the good of our people and culture, so that our brothers and sisters can exercise their Pilgrimage in Nigeria. Within a very short time you will see that, even our brother and sisters from neighboring African countries will join us too. Nigeria is already a blessed land and all we need is just recognize the blessings of the Almighty God; work hard and worship Him with love to our fellows in the land that He gave to us. NIGERIA.
Serves them right why do Africans have to go on Pilgrimages to all these foreign countries following all these foreign colonial religions maybe now they will stay in Africa instead of wandering round the world looking for salvation where there is none- at the end of the day who benefits financially from all this - Saudi Arabia, hundreds of years ago the Arabs packed us as slaves then the whiteman came and did the same - today we are still in mental bondage which is why you still get black Africans killing each other in the name of Islam and Christianity
What will the clowns who are trying to Sharianize Nigeria say ? Hajj trips are just to deplete Nigerian oil resources . I hope the Saudis block this stupid money drain called hajj pilgrimages
It is unfortunate that our Moslem brothers don't understand the trick behind all these manipulations. We are honest and naïve people, so any one can use religion and God to dishonestly and fraudulently subject our consciousness to slavery. Even with the level of poverty in Northern Nigeria, people starve themselves for months if not years, preparing for these religious trips; and at the end billions of dollars are being transferred to Saudi Arabia in the name of pilgrimage, only to be dehumanized and humiliated to all forms of insults. All we need to do now is, search our history, and locate a holy land in Northern Nigeria, promote it very well, and celebrate it for the good of our people and culture, so that our brothers and sisters can exercise their Pilgrimage in Nigeria. Within a very short time you will see that, even our brother and sisters from neighboring African countries will join us too. Nigeria is already a blessed land and all we need is just recognize the blessings of the Almighty God; work hard and worship Him with love to our fellows in the land that He gave to us. NIGERIA.
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