Pilgrims conclude Hajj with symbolic stoning of ``Satan''
Sixty Five thousand Nigerian pilgrims were among the millions of Muslim faithful who Monday completed this year's hajj in Saudi Arabia with the symbolic stoning of ``Satan'.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who covered the event, reports that the stoning which last year resulted in the death of a number of pilgrims, ended peacefully in Munna, a town near Mecca.
The four-day hajj programme was peaceful and without those problems, usually associated with crowd control.
Some of the pilgrims interviewed told NAN that the new structures and facilities put in place for this year's hajj must have contributed to the ``very smooth pilgrimage''.
NAN also reports that the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar, EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu and the governors of Zamfara, Kebbi, Niger, Jigawa and Bauchi States, were among prominent Nigerians who performed this year's hajj.