The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that the country’s flags, in both home and foreign missions, will be flown at half-mast in honour of the passage of Queen Elizabeth II.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that the longest-serving British monarch had on Thursday passed on at the age of 96.
Following the demise of the Queen, the throne passed immediately and without ceremony to her eldest son, Charles, the former Prince of Wales.
As world leaders continue to pay tribute to the icon recognisable to billions of people around the world, the Federal Government in a statement by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, said the flags would be flown at half-mast from Sunday 11 to Monday 12 in commiseration with the late monarch.
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According to the statement, the government also commiserated with the government and people of the United Kingdom including all members of the Commonwealth.
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’.
Adamu Garba who is an Ex-presidential aspirant of the Young Progressives Party, YPP while reacting to the death of Queen Elizabeth the Second has openly advised President Muhammadu Buhari to make sure that he immortalizes Queen Elizabeth who had died yesterday at Balmoral aged 96 by renaming the Country’s foremost University.
Garba had asked Buhari to rename the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN to Queen Elizabeth University of Nigeria.
‘In order to immortalised Queen Elizabeth, we should rename the University of Nigeria, Nsukka to Queen Elizabeth University of Nigeria since it is the first University in Nigeria’, he said.
Garba who had initially dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and later came back, this year, had revealed that if he was Nigeria’s president he would declared three days of national mourning for the death of Queen Elizabeth II.