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.

This plaque is now in the British Museum in London ... In 2021, Germany agreed to return the artefacts it holds that were taken from Benin. In the same year, the University of Aberdeen returned ...