Lagos Hajj Pilgrim Oloshigbo Idris Dies in Saudi Arabia

Oloshigbo Idris, a Lagos based resident who travelled on a holy pilgrimage to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the year 2024 annual Hajj Pilgrimage has reportedly died.

The pilgrim, according to report on Thursday dies while eating, few minutes after returning from circumambulation of the Holy Kaaba in Makkah.

The secretary, Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Mr. Saheed Onipede, who confirmed the incident in a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs Unit of the ministry, said the deceased passed on while eating shortly after returning from the Tawaf minutes after the first evening prayer.

Although the circumstances surrounding his death had yet to be medically ascertained at the time this report was filed, Onipede suggested that the death could not be unconnected with the stress the deceased went through during the Tawaf.

The secretary “pray that Allah would forgive his shortcomings and grant him Aljanat Fridaos as well as the reward of the Hajj, since he already had the intention.”

He appealed to other pilgrims “to exercise cautions and restrain from overstressing themselves before the commencement of the real Hajj rites which are yet to be fulfilled.”
The deceased was believed to have been buried according to the Islamic rites in Makkah in line with laid down principles of Saudi Arabian authorities.