Queen Elizabeth: Buhari ordered all flags in Nigeria and foreign missions to fly at half mast
To honor the passing of Queen Elizabeth, the Federal Government has mandated that all flags at home and in foreign missions be flown at half-staff on September 11 and 12.
Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
“We commiserate with the government and the people of UK and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the global community.
“The Queen is dead, long live the King,” he said.
Reports have it that the death of Queen Elizabeth 11 was announced on Thursday (Sept. 8).
She was the Queen of the UK and the other Commonwealth realms from Feb. 6, 1952, until her death in 2022.
Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the second-longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country.
