The Benin Traditional Council has indefinitely suspended the Enogie of Utesi in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, Chief Osazuwa Napoleon, for alleged acts of defiance against the revered ...

Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the ...

With the Oba’s consent, NCMM will now oversee conservation and negotiations for their return. Talks with Cambridge University ...

Nigeria's National Museum Commission is tasked with retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, ancient artifacts looted in 1897. Despite ownership by the Oba of Benin, the commission manages the ...

The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural restitution movement. Despite promises from Western institutions to return ...

Nigeria will receive 113 Benin Bronzes, originally looted by the British, from the Netherlands. The plaques, personal ornaments and figures, currently housed in the collection of Wereldmuseum Leiden, ...

The Netherlands signed an agreement with Nigeria to return some 119 Benin Bronzes looted in 1897 when the British sacked the ...

The Netherlands say over a 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s in museums will ...

Mignon's career took off in 2006 with Minédji, a hit song that remains beloved in Benin almost 20 years later. The West African country's ministry of culture remembered Mignon as "an emblematic ...

PORTO-NOVO, Benin, Feb 4 2025 (IPS) - Benin faced a number of negative spillovers in 2022: a deteriorating regional security situation at its northern border, the lingering scars of COVID-19, and ...