The Jigawa State Pilgrims Welfare Board (JSPWB) has organised a one-day train-the-trainer programme for 27 facilitators to train the state’s intending pilgrims for the 2025 Hajj.
The Director General of the Board, Alhaji Umar Labbo, flagged off the training on Wednesday at the state’s headquarters of the Pilgrims Welfare Board in Dutse, Jigawa State capital.
He urged the facilitators who are knowledgeable with tenets of hajj rites, drawn from each of the 27 local government areas to ensure that each intending pilgrims poses the requisite knowledge of hajj.
Malam Umar Labbo said after the training, the facilitators would, in turn, train the intending pilgrims at designated centres across the state.
He said the facilitators will train the state’s intending pilgrims both at the local government level and in Saudi Arabia.
Labbo said the gesture, which is the first of its kind in the state, to sponsor the preachers to the holy land was to ensure proper training of the pilgrims on the basic tenets of Hajj, both in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia
“After the train-the-trainer programme, the facilitators are expected to go back to their respective local government areas to step down the training.
“They are mandated to train prospective pilgrims on obligations, tenets and cardinal principles of the Hajj exercise.
“The board will supervise the exercise in order to ensure that each and every prospective pilgrim participate in the exercise,” Malam Labbo said.
According to him, proper education of pilgrims would prepare them to conduct the Hajj in accordance with the teachings of Islam and be good ambassadors of the country.
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