The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s Hajj.
The flights were suspended on Thursday following the wave of deportation of female pilgrims by the Saudi authorities.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, the commission’s spokesman, Mallam Uba Mana, confirmed the resumption of flight operations in Lagos, Abuja, Minna, Kaduna and Sokoto centres.
Mana said each of the centres would transport no fewer than 1,000 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia between Sunday and Monday.
He said this was in fulfilment of the commission’s promise to transport all pilgrims before the close of Saudi Arabia airspace on October 20.
He said the commission had less than 60,000 pilgrims who had yet to be transported to Saudi Arabia and that it had the capacity to do so within 10 days.
On what led to the suspension of flight operations, he said the issue was being resolved at the highest level of government.
Meanwhile, the Kano State House of Assembly has expressed its determination to ensure the end of detention of female pilgrims in the Saudi Arabia.
Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Gambo Sallau gave this assurance in a statement by the House Director of Press, Alhaji Kabiru Salisu.
The statement quoted the Speaker as having said this when he visited the Consulate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Najid Albani in Kano.
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