As part of efforts towards ensuring a hitch free 2013 hajj exercise, Ogun State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board is putting together a sensitisation workshop to acquaint pilgrims with the rights, obligations and acts forbidden while on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Executive Secretary of the Board, Alhaji Sefiu Rasheed who disclosed this in a statement noted that the workshop holds on Thursday, September 5 2013, at the Old Secretariat Mosque, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta by 10.am. According to him, the workshop would also feature paper presentations and lectures by eminent Islamic Scholars, Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (N.D.L.E.A) and Health officials. He reassured the pilgrims of the readiness of the Board to providing second to none welfare packages for them, adding that efforts are been geared towards retaining the enviable number one spot it occupied in previous exercises.
Via: Ogun State Government - Official Press Release
Ogun State is really known for things like this so I'm in no way surprised @ this news at all. Let's hope it goes fine tho!