HAJJ: 200 MOSLEM PILGRIMS FROM SOUTH EAST TO SPEND 35 DAYS IN SAUDI ARABIA

Moslem Pilgrims from the South-East are advised to behave well and be good ambassadors of the country while on holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

The Federal Commissioner representing South-East in the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Alhaji Ibrahim Ezeani, gave the advice in an interview with Radio Nigeria at the Dr. Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu on their way to Abuja.

Alhaji Ezeani, who thanked the Federal Government and the South-East Governors for their encouragement and support, explained that the pilgrims were in high spirit.

He also said that the hajj would last for thirty-five days and that over two hundred pilgrims were involved from the Zone.

EMMA NWEKE