The Kingdom of Nri, established by the Igbo people around the 10th century AD, is considered the oldest kingdom in Nigeria.

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

Eppo Bruins, the Dutch culture minister, said that the bronzes – looted and then sold off after a 1897 British military raid on Benin City, the capital of the historical kingdom of Benin ...

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

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

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

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin ... Benin kingdom. This move may increase pressure on other institutions to return the Benin Bronzes, especially the British Museum, which ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum. Thousands of these culturally ...

The Netherlands has become the latest country to agree to return the Benin Bronzes, works of art looted by the British from the Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria, in 1897. The Dutch ...

The palace of the Oba (the king) in Benin City, which had been the flourishing center of the kingdom for centuries, was destroyed. The British Museum, which has the largest Benin collection with ...