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Friday, November 27, 2020

Nigerian Govt Receives Smuggled 600-Year-Old Ife Terracotta From The Netherlands

The Kingdom of Netherlands on Thursday officially presented a smuggled Ife Terracotta antiquity dated to be at least 600 years old to Nigeria.






The repatriated antiquity was presented to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at a ceremony held in Abuja.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Van Dijk, Nigeria Charge de Affairs to the Netherlands, Kabiru Musa and the Director-General National Commission for Museum and Monuments (NCMM) were present at the event.

Receiving the repatriated object, the minister said it was smuggled through the airport in Ghana before getting to Europe in 2019.

“The smuggler had obtained forged documents purported to be from a former Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
The smuggler ultimately passed through the airport in Ghana before getting to Europe in 2019.

“The Dutch Customs at Schiphol Airport suspected that the object might be illicitly imported and alerted the antiquity protection office known as the Inspectie, which is the Information and Heritage Inspectorate of the Netherlands, to give an opinion.

“The Inspectie invited Nigeria to prove her case against the suspected smuggler,’’ he said.

from dailypost

23 comments:

  1. Well let's take comfort in the new-found solution to all Nigerias problems, things will automatically stabilize, the artifact has helped Netherland for 600yrs, while Nigeria has suffered for 600yrs, let's see the power in that juju in the motherland

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    1. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ can't help it but laff at this your comment.

      Welcome home our artifact.

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    2. My God. Comprehension is really a problem. The artifact was smuggled a year ago

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    3. Can u understand sarcasm? Or you donated your brain??

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    4. O my chestπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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    5. Disjointed ideas as Sarcasm? You must have a cave brain to try to pass that as sarcasm .

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  2. I hope they keep it well lest the repatriated object miss it's air conditioned abode abroad.

    In short, let the object with it's fellow ancestors strike any one that touches it and deny death of EndSARS protesters

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  3. Thank God the smuggler was intercepted and the artifact repatriated. Nigerian government should enter into an agreement with other European countries for further repatriation of our heritage across their continent

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    1. After the repatriation, does the Nigerian government even knows how to make money from it?
      We don't even have history been taught in schools anymore not to talk of the state at which our museums are.
      I think the repatriation is for photo props jare because they won't know how to spin money out of it.
      The Nigerian government is only focused on making money from oil,and lacks the will to make money from other things.

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    2. The thing will just spoil here due to lack of maintenance. At least it was valued where it was and taken care of. That is why it is still in good condition to be returned.

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  4. I hope mr lai won't lie that he didn't see ,hold talkless of receiving it,later on... Becos since I was born ,I have never seen a lai leing as mr la

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  5. Lai's good morning means it is bedtimeπŸ˜’πŸ˜’πŸ˜’πŸ˜’πŸ˜’πŸ˜

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  6. i hate this lizard mohammed with passion

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  7. Presented in a CEREMONY? Seriously??

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    1. If they tell you the millions they used for the ceremony now,someone will just faint.

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  8. honestly they don't know what to do with it! they don't even know what terracota means.
    something they can dash away and mismanage within a twinkle of an eye.

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    1. Exactly my point.
      I think they should have gone into a business deal with the Netherlands and see that the country turns in money to the Nigerian government monthly, quarterly or yearly.

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  9. Why did they bring it back? It will end up in some ones house or stolen or even dumped in one trash site . We don't know how to preserve anything

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  10. Why did they bring it back? It will end up in some ones house or stolen or even dumped in one trash site . We don't know how to preserve anything. Especially our heritage

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