{"id":232686,"date":"2026-05-08T15:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-hajj-nigerian-pilgrims-warned-against-violating-saudi-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:54:53","slug":"nigeria-hajj-nigerian-pilgrims-warned-against-violating-saudi-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-hajj-nigerian-pilgrims-warned-against-violating-saudi-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Hajj &#8211; Nigerian Pilgrims Warned Against Violating Saudi Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Nigerian intending pilgrims have been urged to obey Saudi Arabian laws, remain disciplined and focus on the spiritual essence of the Hajj pilgrimage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, cautioned pilgrims against acts capable of violating Hajj regulations, stressing that they must serve as worthy ambassadors of both Lagos State and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Represented by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ibrahim Layode, during a seminar organised by the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080393.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>Nigerian intending pilgrims have been urged to obey Saudi Arabian laws, remain disciplined and focus on the spiritual essence of the Hajj pilgrimage. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, cautioned pilgrims against acts capable of violating Hajj regulations, stressing that they must serve as worthy ambassadors of both Lagos State and Nigeria. Represented by the Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232687,"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":[258,256,12349,5040,257,4687,393,482,12919,9388,254,14447,12273],"class_list":["post-232686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hajj","tag-laws","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-pilgrims","tag-saudi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violating","tag-warned"],"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\/232686","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=232686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}