{"id":70291,"date":"2025-07-11T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70291"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:55:34","slug":"nahcon-reviews-2025-hajj-signals-early-kick-off-for-2026-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/11\/nahcon-reviews-2025-hajj-signals-early-kick-off-for-2026-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"NAHCON Reviews 2025 Hajj, Signals Early Kick-off for 2026 Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), has concluded a preliminary review of the 2025 Hajj and hinted at commencing preparations for the 2026 pilgrimage earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>At a debriefing session with key stakeholders in Abuja, the Commission noted that while the 2025 exercise was largely successful, challenges such as flight delays, substandard accommodation in Mina, and overcrowding were recorded and must be addressed ahead of future operations.<\/p>\n<p>NAHCON commended the patience and cooperation of Nigerian pilgrims, as well as the efforts of state pilgrims\u2019 welfare boards in managing the exercise under difficult conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Commission has not officially flagged off 2026 Hajj activities, it disclosed that engagements with airlines, Saudi authorities, and service providers will begin in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at securing better logistics and service delivery while preventing a repeat of the 2025 shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders at the meeting urged NAHCON to boost transparency, improve communication with intending pilgrims, and enforce higher standards for service providers involved in Hajj logistics.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive report on the 2025 Hajj, detailing achievements, challenges, and a roadmap for improvement, is expected from NAHCON in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), has concluded a preliminary review of the 2025 Hajj and hinted at commencing preparations for the 2026 pilgrimage earlier than usual. At a debriefing session with key stakeholders in Abuja, the Commission noted that while the 2025 exercise was largely successful, challenges such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70293,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70291\/revisions\/70293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}