Nigeria's Culture Minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the repatriation of the Ife head "marked a milestone in Nigeria’s efforts at pursuing the return of the country’s antiquities".
The Netherlands has returned a terracotta head to Nigeria, thought to be at least 600 years old, a year after it was intercepted at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, BBC report
The artefact from the ancient city of Ife in south-western Nigeria was smuggled to Europe through Ghana using a forged
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