The Ekasa dance, a spiritually significant procession, marks the conclusion of the first phase of her funeral rites. It is ...

A tumultuous adulating crowd witnessed the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, on Tuesday commemorate the Isoton rite of his Queen mother, Iyoba Omo N’ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II ...

Tumultuous adulating crowd, witnessed the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, as he commemorated the Isoton rite of his Queen mother, Iyoba Omo N’ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, 49 years after her transition.

Officials say the returned artefacts will not go into the private collection of the Benin royals, as previously feared ...

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It ...

In March 2002, the Benin Royal Palace and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Culture formally requested that “all the cultural property belonging to the Oba of Benin illegally taken ...

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

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, ...

recognising that the objects were looted during the British attack on Benin City in 1897, and should have never ended up in the Netherlands," the embassy statement said. The statement quoted National ...

Some Nigerians won big during the Trace Awards 2025 ceremony as seven awards gongs went to Nigeria. Rema, Ayra Starr, Mercy ...