Nigeria saddened by Christie’s sale of ‘looted’ statues
Celestina Olulode - BBC News Nigeria correspondent The wooden objects, one male and one female, represent deities from the Igbo community Nigeria is "saddened" by the sale of two sculptures belonging to the south-eastern Igbo community, an official from the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, has said. A prominent art historian had called on the renowned auction house, Christie's, to cancel the sale. Prof Chika Okeke-Agulu told the BBC the two objects were "looted" from shrines during the civil war in the late 1960s. The items were sold...


