{"id":19941,"date":"2024-02-16T06:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19941"},"modified":"2024-02-16T06:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:38:26","slug":"us-govt-repatriates-63-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/16\/us-govt-repatriates-63-looted-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"US Govt Repatriates 63 Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-qkfzz-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-qkfzz-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-100\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"5c6b79ae-9a3a-46b7-910b-66bb6c89ea29\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The United States and the Nigerian government have signed an agreement to preserve Sukur\u2019s cultural heritage in Adamawa State. The Memorandum of Understanding for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation was signed in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The US government, having repatriated 63 Benin bronzes since 2022, awarded the grant to the International Council on Monuments and Sites in Nigeria. The purpose of the grant is to support the preservation of Sukur cultural heritage through infrastructure enhancements, traditional crafts revival, and language documentation.<\/p>\n<p>The successful repatriation of the bronzes is a result of bilateral efforts to identify, intercept, and repatriate looted cultural property.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa, highlighted the threat to the Sukur Cultural Landscape posed by insurgency and climate change. She outlined the project&#8217;s goals, including conservation, capacity-building, and community resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and the Nigerian government have signed an agreement to preserve Sukur\u2019s cultural heritage in Adamawa State. The Memorandum of Understanding for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation was signed in Abuja. The US government, having repatriated 63 Benin bronzes since 2022, awarded the grant to the International Council on Monuments and Sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19947,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19941\/revisions\/19947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}