{"id":3741,"date":"2026-10-29T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/just-in-tinubu-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-umrah\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:30:47","slug":"just-in-tinubu-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-umrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/just-in-tinubu-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-umrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: Tinubu lands in Saudi Arabia for Umrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Just-In-Tinubu-lands-in-Saudi-Arabia-for-Umrah.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Just In: Tinubu lands in Saudi Arabia for Umrah\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Just-In-Tinubu-lands-in-Saudi-Arabia-for-Umrah.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tinubu-arrives-in-Saudi-2026-300x163.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tinubu-arrives-in-Saudi-2026-768x416.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Tinubu-arrives-in-Saudi-2026.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening arrived in Saudi Arabia, landing at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was received by Nigeria\u2019s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yakubu Gambo, and the Saudi head of royal protocol Ahmad bin Thafir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President is scheduled to perform Umrah, also known as the lesser hajj, and is expected to return to Nigeria next week after completing the religious exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday\u2019s trip marks the second time Tinubu has travelled to Makkah to perform Umrah since assuming office on May 29, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Tinubu visited the holy city in November 2023, shortly after attending the Saudi-African Summit in Riyadh, where he also prayed for divine guidance in leading Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest trip is part of a series of foreign engagements undertaken by Tinubu since becoming president. He has visited more than 30 countries in over 50 unique and recurring trips.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/just-in-tinubu-lands-in-saudi-arabia-for-umrah\/\">Just In: Tinubu lands in Saudi Arabia for Umrah<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening arrived in Saudi Arabia, landing at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. He was received by Nigeria\u2019s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yakubu Gambo,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}