Nigerian govt to receive stolen antiquities from US, Scotland
The Federal Government says it will take control of other stolen antiquities from the U.S. and Scotland in October this year.The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at a media briefing on Saturday in Lagos State on the efforts by the federal government to repatriate looted smuggled artefacts from around the world.
Mohammed said, “In March 2021, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland agreed to return a Benin Bronze from its collections.“We’ve also secured a date in October 2021 for the repatriation of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in New York.Mohammed said the development formed parts of the successes recorded by the campaign he launched in November 2019 for the return and restitution of Nigeria’s looted/smuggled artefacts from around the world.
The minister recalled that in October last year, the Netherlands returned a highly-valued 600-year-old Ife Terracotta while Mexico returned a bronze piece in April 2021. He said, “The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has also agreed to return a disputed Benin artefact.Related Topics:
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