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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has commended the United States for the repatriation to Nigeria of 23 Benin
The United States has repatriated to Nigeria, 23 Benin Bronzes, part of the thousands of artifacts that were looted by the British during their invasion of Benin Kingdom in 1897.
Libya boasts many ancient Greek and Roman structures, along with a wealth of ancient artefacts in its major museum in the capital of Tripoli.
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 governmentâs resolve to recover these cultural objects. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports âWe are coming for you,â the Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed had announced before a coterie of culture journalists during a press conference in Lagos. No, these words â beneath which lurked an obvious threat â were not directed at the journalists. They were rather directed at ...