Airlifting of about 300 pilgrims from FCT to Israel begins June 29

• As Acting Director, Baita charges pilgrims to be good Ambassadors

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

No fewer than 300 intending pilgrims are expected to perform this year’s holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem from the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.

Already, the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, NCPC, and other top officials of the

Christian pilgrims boards left Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Wednesday, for Israel to put finishing touches to accommodation, transportation and logistics for the intending pilgrims to the Holy Land.

The team members are going to Israel to also assess the state of readiness of facilities to be used by Nigerian contingents in the Holy Land.

They will equally assess all other arrangements made so far in order to have a smooth and easy pilgrimage to Israel.

Every step, findings showed, has been done to ensure there would be no hitches before, during and after the pilgrimage to Israel.

Before now, the pilgrims were intended to visit only Rome and Greece but after the re-assurance from the Israeli Ambassador, Israel will be the main pilgrim venue once again.

The Abuja pilgrims and all intending pilgrims from the North East will be airlifted from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja on June 29, this year.

The FCT pilgrims welfare board acting Director, Mrs Rahila Isa Baita. has urged intending pilgrims to be good ambassadors and represent FCT and the country well.

She assured that everything has been put in place for smooth and hitch free pilgrimage.