Nigeria's contingent of 55,000 pilgrims to this year's Hajj have moved to Mount Arafat on Sunday midnight to begin the Hajj proper in the Holy Land.
The movement began with pilgrims from Adamawa and Oyo states who had hitherto been camped along with their counterparts from the 36 states and FCT in Muna, few kilometres away from the Holy city of Makkah.
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