{"id":16923,"date":"2010-11-30T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=16923"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T16:01:44","slug":"650-sierra-leonean-pilgrims-to-jet-in-thursday-at-lungi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=16923","title":{"rendered":"650 Sierra Leonean Pilgrims to Jet in Thursday at Lungi Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>After  a successful completion of this year\u2019s Hajj, the last two batches of  Sierra Leonean pilgrims will depart from the Holy Land on Wednesday, 1<sup>st<\/sup> November, 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In  a brief interview with the Chairman of the 2010 Hajj Mission, Hon.  Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, who also doubles as\u00a0 Sierra Leone\u2019s Labour,\u00a0  Employment and Social Security Minister, early Tuesday, November 30,  2010 confirmed that the last two sets of pilgrims are expected to arrive  at the Lungi International Airport in the early hours of Thursday, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> December, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These  two sets of pilgrims numbering 500 and 150 are headed by the Chairman  of the 2010 Hajj Mission, Hon. Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray and a member of  the Hajj Mission, Alhaji M.S Kargbo, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It  would be recalled that the first two batches, headed by another member  of the Hajj Mission, Alhaji Salieu Mansaray, numbering 22 and the other  headed by Alhaji Yayah Deen Kamara, numbering 9, who were sponsored by  Government and Physicians Across Continent (PAC) respectively \u00a0left the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah on Friday, 26th November, 2010 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They arrived safely at the Lungi International Airport in the early hours of Sunday, 28<sup>th<\/sup> November, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_16925\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hon._Minkailu_Mansaray_Announcing_their_departure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16925\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16925\" title=\"Hon._Minkailu_Mansaray_Announcing_their_departure\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Hon._Minkailu_Mansaray_Announcing_their_departure-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Minkailu Mansaray announcing their departure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According  to Hon. Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, His Excellency, the President, Dr.  Ernest Bai Koroma is expected to address all Sierra Leonean pilgrims who  performed this year\u2019s Hajj at State House on 3rd December, 2010 after  the congregational prayers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Information Attach\u00e9,\u00a0 Sierra Leone Embassy, Riyadh \u2013 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful completion of this year\u2019s Hajj, the last two batches of Sierra Leonean pilgrims will depart from the Holy Land on Wednesday, 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[808,1],"tags":[1266,1639],"class_list":["post-16923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religious-affairs","category-uncategorized","tag-hajj","tag-sierra-leone-pilgrims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}