{
  "id": 12570494,
  "title": "Sokoto pilgrims’ board decries Hajj passport centralisation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/sokoto-pilgrims-board-decries-hajj-passport-centralisation",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T05:29:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/sokoto-pilgrims-board-decries-hajj-passport-centralisation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Sokoto State Pilgrims Welfare Agency (PWA) has described the centralisation of Hajj passport issuance in Abuja and Lagos as a major bottleneck, saying the process now takes up to three weeks instead of the one week it previously required. The chairman of the agency, Alhaji Aliyu Musa, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on Tuesday […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}