Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama on Thursday took delivery of a stolen Ile-Ife artifact returned from Mexico.
The minister in Abuja called for a more secured border to prevent future theft.
Onyeama collected the artifact from the Charge d’Affaires of the Nigerian Mission in Mexico, Dr. Yakubu Dadu.
The minister commended the Embassy for recovering the artifact.
Onyeama expressed appreciation to the Government of Mexico for ensuring that the artifact was duly returned to Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Legal Adviser to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Mr. Babatunde Adebiyi said plans were underway to build even more secured museums with global standards.
“Museum as an Institution has evolved in Nigeria and are better secured now and I can vouch that hardly can anybody steal objects from Nigerian Museums.
“We are making arrangements to build a Museum in the standard of the Western World like the one we are making efforts with the Edo State government to build and even some foreign governments,” Adebiyi said.
