The Federal Government announced on Friday night that the Nigerian flags at home and in diplomatic missions must fly at half-mast in remembrance of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, said that the flags would be flown at half-mast from Sunday, November 11, to Monday, November 12, 2022.
The government expressed its condolences to the Queen's passing together with those of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the rest of the afflicted world.
The statement reads:” In honour of Queen Elizabeth II, the sovereign of the United Kingdom, Chairman of the Commonwealth and an eminent global personality whose passage to eternity was announced yesterday, the Ministry of Interior of the Federal Republic of Nigeria declares that all flags in Nigeria and our missions abroad be flown at half mast on Sunday September 11, 2022 and Monday 12, 2022.
“We commiserate with the government and people of the United Kingdom and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the World.
“The Queen is dead, long live the king.”