The President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to nations, institutions and bodies, both private and public, to return Nigeria’s artefacts in their possession.
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja, said the
Nigerian leader made the appeal in the aftermath of the return of two
important Nigerian artefacts from Britain.
The president welcomed the official handover, on Saturday, of the
Okwukor and the Head of an Oba of Benin bronzes, to the Oba of Benin,
Oba Ewuare II.
They were repatriated from the University of Cambridge and University
of Aberdeen, respectively, in the United Kingdom, after 125 years of
their leaving the territory of present-day Nigeria.
