
Third batch of Kwara state 548 pilgrims from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia has arrived in Ilorin, the state capital.
Max Airline flight carrying the five hundred and forty-eight pilgrims including one official from state and nine officials from NAHCON, touched down at the Babatunde Idi-Agbon International Airport, Ilorin at exactly twenty-six minutes past five this evening.
The state official, who led the other pilgrims is Alhaja Ahmed Hassanat, while their return comes three days after the arrival of the second batch of five hundred and forty-nine pilgrims from Saudi Arabia.
With the third batch of pilgrims so far from kwara state is one thousand, six hundred and fifty-four pilgrims, while remaining pilgrims from Kwara state awaiting airlift to Nigeria in Saudi Arabia.
The State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board airlifted a total number of two thousand, two hundred and four pilgrims to the holy pilgrimage.
By Abdullah Ahmed