{"id":2735,"date":"2026-10-28T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/tinubu-jets-to-saudi-arabia-for-umrah-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:19:08","slug":"tinubu-jets-to-saudi-arabia-for-umrah-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/tinubu-jets-to-saudi-arabia-for-umrah-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu jets to Saudi Arabia for Umrah Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63\">\n<p>President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday depart Abuja for Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to perform Umrah, an Islamic spiritual exercise involving a pilgrimage to the holy city.<\/p>\n<p>Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday titled \u2018President Tinubu departs Abuja for Makkah to pray for the nation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the visit will afford the President an opportunity for spiritual reflection, devotion, and prayers for Nigeria\u2019s peace, unity, stability, and continued progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile in Makkah, President Tinubu will perform the religious rites associated with Umrah, seeking Allah\u2019s guidance and blessings for Nigeria and its people,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Before departing Abuja, Tinubu is expected to inaugurate some equipment acquired by the Nigerian Air Force for its operations at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The President is expected to return to the country next week after completing the spiritual exercise.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a9ddc1cccccdc0ddc6dbe9d9dcc7cac1c7ce87cac6c4\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"20544845454449544f526050554e43484e470e434f4d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday depart Abuja for Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to perform Umrah, an Islamic spiritual exercise involving a pilgrimage to the holy city. Special Adviser&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}