AUTHORITY of the National Hajj Commission, (NAHCON) has announced the distribution of the 2022 Hajj slots across states of the federation.
ROYAL NEWS reports that NAHCON Chairman, Barr Zikrullah Hassan, stated this during hajj operational meeting with Chief Executives of States Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards.
Zikrullah said Saudi Arabia allocated a total number of 43,008 quotas to Nigeria. The distribution of Hajj seat followed the approval of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to host one million pilgrims in this year hajj.
Allocation to other states are as follows:
Kano—-222
Katsina—2146
Kogi —313
Adamawa—1166
Kwara —1406
Lagos—1562
FCT—1538
Nasarawa—684
Sokoto —2404
Taraba—651
Zamfara—1303
Yobe—860
Oyo—629
Osun—460
Ogun —497
Plateau —824
Bauchi —1362
Jigawa—614
Gombe—1005
Borno —1195
Benue—103
Ekiti—83
Edo—94
Ebonyi—51
Anambra—17
Armed Forces—239
NAHCON adopted the 2019 state performance database to arrive at number of pilgrims’ distribution to each state.
For example in 2019, Niger state was allocated 3946 seats but was able to airlifted 3280 pilgrims representing 7.3 percent. Consequently, Niger was allocated 2256 representing the same percent for 2022 hajj.