If these artefacts are widely acknowledged to belong to Nigeria, why are returns happening in bits and pieces? On the other hand, the British Museum holds over 900 Benin Bronzes but has outright ...

Nigeria recently successfully negotiated the return of Benin artefacts looted during the 1897 British expedition. The artefacts were repatriated to the country and handed over to the Oba of Benin.

Nigeria is on a quest to recover the thousands of intricate sculptures and castings that were looted by British ... the Benin Royal Museum, which would eventually house some of the artefacts.

Cambridge University is under pressure to return the Benin Bronzes it promised to Nigeria three years ago after Nigerian authorities said they would not disappear into the collection of a king ...