AGENCIES | In the largest restitution of its kind, the Netherlands recently returned 119 Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian ...

The country signed a repatriation agreement with Germany in July 2022 for the return of 1,130 Benin Bronzes. Twenty of them landed in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, in December 2022.

Why slave descendants want the Benin Bronzes to stay in US In 2022, Germany was the first to return over 20 Benin bronzes in a bid to deal with its "dark colonial history".

The Benin Bronzes are indispensable to Nigeria. It is good that they are going back," Bruins said. The so-called Benin Bronzes were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897.

The artefact is a "Benin Bronze", a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria more than 120 years ago, now being removed from display and returned to its rightful home.

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return to date of Benin antiquities looted by the British military as part ...

Over the past five years, Western museums have been taking action to return looted Benin Bronzes, but some countries are lagging behind others. Germany led the way in 2022 by concluding a deal to ...

The US Supreme Court has denied a petition to block the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. from restituting 29 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, reports The Art Newspaper.

Germany aims to start returning Benin Bronzes to Nigeria next year, its foreign and culture ministries said, part of a growing trend to return cultural artefacts seized during the colonial era to ...

MFA returns two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria By Malcolm Gay Globe Staff,Updated June 27, 2025, 3:30 p.m. 2 ...