Nigeria will receive no fewer than 1,030 Benin artefacts from Germany this year, Director-General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abba Tijani, has said.
Tijani in Ibadan said that many artefacts had been received from the
European nation, but the commission would receive at least an
additional 1,030 in 2022.
The objects were taken from the country during the punitive expedition
of Benin in 1897.
According to him, when the artefacts would be received, it would give
the commission the opportunity to build new museums and attract more
tourists across the world.
Tijani said this would also give them opportunities to view the cultural
objects from the Nigerian context.
He added that the commission had called for the expansion of the
National Museum in Abuja and that of Benin so that the objects could be
displayed.
He said the commission had partnered with corporate organisations to
fund museum activities, adding that it had renovated many museums
across the country.
