Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- More than 200 artefacts looted from Nigeria by the British military in the 19th century are set to be returned.

The Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) confirmed this in a statement issued last Sunday.

The institution has already transferred ownership of the artefacts to Nigeria and will return them to their home country before the end of 2026.

The statement said the university had "transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM)."

This comes three years after NCMM called for the return of 116 objects looted by armed forces during the 1897 sack of Benin C...