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2025

JUNE 21: Netherlands to return over 119 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria

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JUNE 21: Netherlands to return over 119 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria The Netherlands says it is ready to return not fewer than 119 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria this month. The Dutch embassy in Nigeria confirmed to TheCable on Thursday that the bronzes will arrive in the week of June 16. An official said the handover ceremony will take place on June 21 at the National Museum in Lagos. They will later be returned to the National Museum in Benin City, the Edo state capital. The number of artefacts is believed to be the single largest to be returned…

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2020

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Prof. Osinbajo Advocates For Nigeria Void Of Discrimination, Marginalisation

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Prof. Osinbajo stated this, today, during the 50th Anniversary of the Nigerian Civil War, held at the National War Museum, in Umuahia, Abia state's capital, stressing that Nigeria needs to build a nation with a glaring fairness, equity and justice. Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo says that the present administration of President Mohammadu Buhari is bent on building a new Nigerian nation devoid of any form of discrimination and marginalisation. The second in command of the federal republic of Nigeria charged the people against hatred and the use of weapons, insisting that "we must build a nation devoid…