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Germany returns 20 Benin bronzes to Nigeria, noting ‘‘dark past’’

Editor3December 21, 202201 views

Twenty historic bronze sculptures have been returned to Nigeria by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” its foreign minister said on Tuesday. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s…

Stolen artefacts should be returned to Oba of Benin -SANs, historians, Benin leaders

Editor2July 12, 202100 views

As the controversy over where thousands of artefacts taken from the palace of the Oba of Benin in 1897 by the Europeans should be domiciled rages, Senior Advocates of Nigeria…