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Ex-PM approved appointment of permanent delegate a day before NA dissolution

Stamps featuring the illegally removed parts of the Parthenon have been released in Greece in efforts to raise awareness for the return of the ancient sculptures to Athens.

Just in time for International Museum Day, the two countries have agreed to pursue a resolution to the long-contested ancient artifacts.

The reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures may be a step closer with the revelation by UNESCO that Greece and the United Kingdom have agreed to stage

Dr Lina Mendoni, the Minister of Culture and Sport of the Hellenic Republic, has landed in Australia.

ATHENS -- "It is high time for the sculptures to be reunited with those already on display in the Acropolis Museum, in an exemplary manner, under the Attic sky and the light of Athens," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Friday, talking to TV100 about the Decision regarding the Parthenon Sculptures made at the 22nd session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in case of Illicit Appropri ...

Share The 1,130 Benin bronzes Germany plans to return to Nigeria in 2022 will not go to either the Edo State Government or the Benin Royal Palace. When the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the launch of a campaign for the return and restitution of Nigeria’s looted/smuggled artefacts in 2019, he would not have expected the massive windfall. Mohammed had warned that the FG was coming after foreign countries keeping stolen artefacts from Nigeria using all avail...

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...

We’ll soon receive stolen antiquities from US, Scotland – FG The Punch Published 18 July 2021 In addition to the 1130 looted artefacts expected from Germany, the Federal Government says it will soon take possession of other stolen antiquities from the United States of America and Scotland in October. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known at a press briefing in Lagos on Saturday. He said the federal government was making progress in its...

By Olawale Ajimotokan The federal government has in clear terms ruled out turning over the 1,130 Benin bronzes presently in possession of the German government to any individuals or subnational groups when the artefacts are finally repatriated to the country by August 2022. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this clarification on Saturday while addressing the press in Lagos on the efforts by the federal government to repatriate looted and smuggled artefacts from a...