The Federal Government of Nigeria says the country’s flags, home and in foreign missions, are to be flown at half mast in honour of the passage of Queen Elizabeth II.
NWAFOLIVE reports that this was disclosed in a statement by Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The statement reads that, “flags would be flown at half mast on Sunday 11 to Monday 12, 2022.”
It further states that the federal government commiserates with the government and people of the United Kingdom and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the World on the passage of the Queen.
“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.”
Queen Elizabeth II, is the UK’s longest-serving monarch. She died on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.
The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change.
Her son King Charles III says that 
the death of his beloved mother was a “moment of great sadness” for him and his family and that her loss would be “deeply felt” around the world.
