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By Jabiru A Hassan, Kano.
The Kano state pilgrims Board has commenced an eight week workshop for this year’s intending pilgrims across the state last Saturday at school for Arabic studies in Kano.
Declaring the workshop open, the chairman of the Board who represented Kano Deputy governor Sheikh Abba Adam Koki announced that Kano state government is always determined to ensure a hitch-free Hajj operations by educating it’s intending pilgrims as usual.
He disclosed that the seminar would increase the knowledge of the pilgrims at home and in the holy land.
He emphasized that it will aid and smooth their act of worship and therefore urge them to ensure that they attend the seminar as at when due.
In his remark, the permanent secretary of the Board, Malam Hamza Yakubu disclosed that the 2016 Hajj operations was very successful for kano state because the state government gave all the necessary support to the pilgrims Board which shows that the 2017 operation would also be successful as usual.
Malam Hamza therefore directed all local governments in Kano state to ensure that hajj seats should be sold to intending pilgrims based on the rules and regulations for the sales of hajj seat.
He expressed his appreciation to the Scholars who serve as instructors for putting heads together to educate the intending pilgrims in the state.
