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.

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 ...

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".

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 ...

Nigeria has taken delivery from the Netherlands of 119 pieces of priceless "Benin Bronze" artefacts looted more than 120 years ago, the country's museum commission and the Dutch embassy said ...

About three years ago, Germany became the first European country to return some 20 looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Britain has over 900 looted Nigerian artefacts it has continued to retain ...

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 number of bronzes is believed to be the single largest to be returned to Nigeria after over 50 years of efforts to repatriate them. ALSO READ: Germany to return 1,130 looted Benin Bronzes to ...