{"id":226824,"date":"2026-03-14T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gateway-to-holy-land-ogun-airport-eyes-first-hajj-flights-by-kayode-akinmade\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:20:07","slug":"nigeria-gateway-to-holy-land-ogun-airport-eyes-first-hajj-flights-by-kayode-akinmade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gateway-to-holy-land-ogun-airport-eyes-first-hajj-flights-by-kayode-akinmade\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Gateway to Holy Land &#8211; Ogun Airport Eyes First Hajj Flights, By Kayode Akinmade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The first international operation planned for the airport is the airlift of Muslim pilgrims travelling to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Exciting times are unfolding in Nigeria&#8217;s Gateway State as Ogun prepares to live up to its name by becoming a true gateway&#8211;not just to other parts of Nigeria, but to the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">For years, intending air travellers from Ogun and neighbouring states had to journey to Lagos to board both domestic and international flights. That reality is now changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130624.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first international operation planned for the airport is the airlift of Muslim pilgrims travelling to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj Exciting times are unfolding in Nigeria&#8217;s Gateway State as Ogun prepares to live up to its name by becoming a true gateway&#8211;not just to other parts of Nigeria, but to the world. For years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,2819,53900,4342,6969,31198,12349,7197,50175,6122,257,4687,393,12407,254],"class_list":["post-226824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-akinmade","tag-eyes","tag-flights","tag-gateway","tag-hajj","tag-holy","tag-kayode","tag-land","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ogun","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}