Lagos-based daily; covered Nigerian reception of the handover and context on Nigeria's ongoing repatriation campaign

Vanguard reported from Lagos on the ceremony, noting that most of the returned artefacts would be transferred from the National Museum to their ancestral home in Edo State. The piece contextualised the Swiss handover within Nigeria's wider diplomatic push to repatriate Benin objects still held in UK, German, and US collections.

“Switzerland returns famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.”