Explanation:

• Germany is to become the first country to hand back the Benin bronzes looted by British soldiers in the late 19th century.
• The culture minister of Germany, Monika Grütters, announced that Germany would start returning a “substantial” part of the artefacts held in its museums to Nigeria from next year.
• British troops looted thousands of artworks known as the Benin Bronzes from the Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria, in 1897.
• Berlin's Ethnologisches Museum holds more than 500 artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin, most of them bronzes.