Germany has agreed to return all stolen Benin artifacts by 2022. The artifacts are those stolen from the Benin Royal Court during the British incursion in 1849. This was announced on Tuesday as a press briefing in Abuja, this Nigeria capital. This event was attended by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki; and the German delegation. At the meeting, the German Director-General Culture and Communication, Dr. Andreas Gorgen said...

The University of Aberdeen has said it has decided to return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within the next few weeks. The bronze is said to be a fraction of a haul of thousands of religious and cultural treasures taken when British forces looted Nigeria in the 19th century. The treasures were later auctioned to Western museums and collectors several years ago. In a statement, the institution called the 1897 punitive expedition was one of...