Page 11 - Campaign For The News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from Campaign for the. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In Campaign For The Today - Breaking & Trending Today

BENIN BRONZES: NOW, THE LOOTERS HAVE GOT THE MESSAGE…


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. ....

New York , United States , France General , United Kingdom , City Of , Edo State , Babatunde Adebiyi , Heiko Maas , Stephan Steinlein , Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie , Godwin Obaseki , Jacques Kerchache , Lai Mohammed , Santa Barbara , Okechukwu Uwaezuoke , Chika Okeke Agulu , Jacques Chirac , University Of California , Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger , Campaign For The , Princeton University , University Of Aberdeen , Culture Ministry , Nigerian National Commission For Museums , University Of Cambridge , Ministry Of Information ,