{"id":9131,"date":"2024-08-19T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:04:13","slug":"president-tinubu-replaces-jalal-arabi-names-usman-new-nahcon-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/president-tinubu-replaces-jalal-arabi-names-usman-new-nahcon-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu appoints Usman as the new NAHCON chief, replacing Jalal Arabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has fired Jalal Arabi, as Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ajuri Ngelale, Presidential spokesman, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday, August 19, in which he announced Professor Abdullahi Saleh Usman as the new Chairman of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Usman is a renowned scholar with qualifications from two Islamic centres of excellence \u2014 the University of Madinah and Peshawar University, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is also well-grounded in Hajj operations, having served as the Chairman of Kano State Pilgrims Board, and successfully superintendent the operations of the largest quota of state pilgrims in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe appointment is subject to confirmation by the Senate. The President expects the new Chairman of NAHCON to discharge his duties with integrity, transparency, and utmost fidelity to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arabi, who was appointed in October, ran into trouble over the 2024 Hajj which the Federal Government released N90 billion to subsidise.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arrested Arabi and the commission\u2019s secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>An EFCC source had said a total of 314,098 Saudi Riyals was recovered from the sacked NAHCON chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chairman fraudulently overpaid himself, the commissioners, secretary and directors for the 2024 hajj operational cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chairman was entitled to SR15,929 but he got SR50,000; three commissioners who were meant to get SR 15,929 each received SR 40,000 each. The secretary got SR 30,000 instead of SR14,336. Directors\/Chief of Staff received SR 30,000 instead of the SR2,550 they were entitled to. The total of SR314,098 were recovered from all of them,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has fired Jalal Arabi, as Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). Ajuri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}