History came full circle in a powerful display of culture and justice as 119 looted Benin artefacts were returned by the Netherlands to the palace of Oba Ewuare II. The repatriation—the largest ever ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

To attempt to superimpose such a structure is not innovation; it is cultural imposition. It is, quite frankly, an act of ...

The Oba of Benin is the rightful owner of the Benin Bronzes, according to an official gazette signed by then-president Muhammadu Buhari on 28 March. The priceless objects were looted from the Kingdom ...

An archaeologist shows a group of visitors around excavations at the heart of Benin City in Nigeria, in an area that was once part of the royal palace of the Benin Kingdom. When visitors arrive at ...

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has cautioned Mrs. Folashade Ojo-Tinubu, daughter of President Bola Tinubu, against referring to herself as Iyaloja-General within the Benin Kingdom, stressing that ...

A group of market women in Benin, Edo State have expressed solidarity with the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II over the heat ...

Oba of Benin has received the Iyaloja-General of Market Women Association, Mrs. Folashade Ojo-Tinubu at his palace in Benin ...

Madam Florence Ahunwan, who led the women to the palace, hailed the Oba for explaining the Edo market women’s leadership tradition to the Iyaloja-General of Nigeria, Mrs Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, over who ...

The traders had turned down plan by Folashade-Ojo to install Pastor (Mrs) Josephine Ibhaguezejele as Edo market leader, ...

Sixty seven Enigie in Benin Kingdom have been suspended. The Benin Traditional Council announced their suspension yesterday. Secretary of Benin Traditional Council, Frank Irabor, made this known in a ...