Saudi Arabia says it will not impose limits on the number of pilgrims for the 2023 hajj.
The Saudi Arabia Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Tawfiq al-Rabiah, made this known on Monday, after three years of restrictions to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic, without any age limit,” al-Rabiah told reporters in Riyadh.
The pilgrimage – one of five pillars of Islam, and which all able-bodied Muslims with the means are required to perform at least once – is scheduled for June.
READ ALSO: FG approves N4.7bn for TETFund research grants
In 2019, about 2.5 million people took part in the rituals.
For the next two years, numbers were drastically curtailed numbers due to the pandemic.
In 2022, nearly 900,000 pilgrims, including some 780,000 from abroad, were welcomed to Islam’s holiest cities of Mecca and Medina.
At that time, they had to be aged under 65, as well as have a vaccination against COVID-19 and present a negative test.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Muttaqa Darma, has given a 14-member committee six…
Nigerian content creator Mummy Wa has sparked controversy after alleging that many women in the…
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a suspected serial burglar and recovered photographic…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has described the Dangote Refinery as more than an industrial…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has announced plans to roll out between 50…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has received the Nigerian Economic Society’s Distinguished Organisation Award for…
This website uses cookies.