The Nigerian scholar credited with ensuring the recovery of one of the country’s artefacts put up for auction for over a billion Naira, Professor Sa’ad Abubakar, is dead. According to a published biography of the academic, as ambassador of Nigeria to Switzerland between 1987 and 1992, he stopped the auction of the Benin Bronze head, … Continue reading Scholar who stopped sale of Benin bronze head for N1 billion, dies