The Nigerian government, Saturday, directed that all flags at government offices in Nigeria and abroad be flown at half-mast on Sunday, September 11, 2022, and Monday, the 12th in honour of Queen Elizabeth II who passed on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at the age of 96.
This, honour, according to Mr Rauf Aregbesola, Nigeria’s Interior Minister, who gave the directive, was necessary as the great monarch was the Head of the Commonwealth and Nigeria a member of the Commonwealth and former British colony.
Aregbesola commiserated with the government and people of the United Kingdom and the millions of people across the Commonwealth and around the world who the Queen served so meritoriously and with dignity.
“We commiserate with the government and people of the United Kingdom and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the world,” the Minister of Interior said in the statement.
“The Queen is dead. Long live the King.”
Queen Elizabeth’s heir, Charles, Prince of Wales, was proclaimed King on Saturday.
Same day, King Charles III also named his heir, Prince William, Prince of Wales, an office he (Charles) had held for several decades during his beloved mother’s long reign.
