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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 - The National Herald

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 available legal and diplomatic means. He explained that Nigeria was relying on UNESCO and ECOWAS Article ...

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 ...

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 efforts to repatriate looted smuggled artefacts from around the world. He said, “In March 2021, t...

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 around the world. The remarks on the heels of the controversy between the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II and...