By Jethro IbilekeThe police in Benin, Edo State, have arrested a 50 year-old-man, Mohammed Ihuenuma, for alleged sexual molestation of a 15-year-old girl (name withheld), in Benin City.The arrest of ...

The Tour du Benin, which was staged for the 20th time this year, has become a key date on the UCI Africa Tour Football has long been the dominant sport in West Africa, with a well-established ...

with coach Gernot Rohr leaving out one of his stalwart defenders and calling up an untested teenager. Benin take on Zimbabwe at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium on 21 March and then host South ...

Edo State Government has ratified the decision of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to suspend 71 Enigie (Dukes) in Benin Kingdom, thereby overriding five ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

Benin is headed for its deadliest month of Islamist violence since militants linked to al-Qaeda began making inroads in the West African country in 2021. Over the past four months, at least 294 ...

Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in ...

But the provenance of the work has always been a problem: It’s well known that many of the sculptures were plundered during a raid of the West African Kingdom of Benin by British troops in 1897.

Citigroup Inc. is in talks with African governments including Namibia and Benin to boost business as investment flows into the countries. That’s according to Grant Carson, who heads a unit that ...