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Germany Returns Looted Benin Artefacts to Nigeria

•FG knocks Britain for refusing to return Nigerian antiquities

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja and Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

Germany has formally handed over the repatriated 1,130 Benin bronze artefacts to Nigeria.

The handing over ceremony was held yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja.

The German delegation was led by Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock.

Also in the contingent was the Minister for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, members of parliament both of the federal and regional governments in Germany and administrators and directors of museums in Germany.

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