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Despite the reluctance of the foreign museums in the custody of stolen Nigerian artefacts to part with them, the planned return of looted Benin Bronzes, among other successes, attests to the federal government’s resolve to recover these cultural objects. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports “We are coming for you,” the Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed had announced before a coterie of culture journalists during a press conference in Lagos. No, these words – beneath which lurked an obvious threat – were not directed at the journalists. They were rather directed at “those who are holding on to Nigeria’s cultural property anywhere in the world” and seemed to have dispelled all doubts about the federal government’s resolve to recover all Nigeria’s stolen artefacts abroad.

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