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The death of Elizabeth II: FG orders all flags in Nigeria, foreign missions be flown at half-mast

The Federal Government has ordered that all flags in the country and missions abroad be flown at half-mast on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, to honour the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

“We commiserate with the government and the people of the UK and all the affected people of the Commonwealth and the global community.

“The Queen is dead, long live the King,” he said.

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The death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced on Thursday (Sept. 8).

She was the Queen of the United Kingdom (UK) and the 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.

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