No fewer than 262 Pilgrims from Oyo State who took part in the 2022 holy pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia have landed safely in Nigeria.
A statement from the state Commissioner for Information and Tourism, Alhaji Wasiu Olatubosun, stated that the pilgrims arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
Some of the pilgrims thanked Almighty Allah for His mercy throughout the spiritual exercise
The first batch of Oyo State pilgrims left their hotels for the airport at 6.pm Saudi time (4.pm Nigerian time) on Tuesday.
The aircraft conveying the pilgrims back to Nigeria took off at 2 am Nigerian time.
Recall that the first batch of the pilgrims from the state left Ibadan on Saturday 21st of May 2022, and were airlifted to the Holy Land about twenty hours later.
On the flight were some government functionaries including: the Head of Service, HoS, Alhaja Ololade Agboola; the
Executive Secretary of the state Primary Healthcare Board, Dr Muhideen Olatunji, among others.
The remaining batches of Pilgrims from the Pacesetter State are expected to return to the country later.
