The President of the Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, has shut the border route between Taberu, a village in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State in Nigeria and Tanu, a neighbouring village ...

The Benin Bronzes are indispensable to Nigeria. It is good that they are going back," Bruins said. The so-called Benin Bronzes were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Benin Republic Customs Administration on Monday moved to digitalise and harmonise cross-border trade with the launch of the SIGMAT connectivity between ...

The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in Abuja said on Wednesday.

The Netherlands has returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed ...

Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty and French influence have hardened into a stand-off throttling trade and ...