If Ovonramwen didn’t die, it would not have been possible for the British to amalgamate the Northern and Southern protectorates, and if that was not done, Lugard’s fiancée or girlfriend as ...

It was as if Ovonramwen resurrected or spoke from the grave, while revisiting the agony of Nigerians in pre-colonial times, the drama focuses, on the story the Benin monarch and happenings in ...

Ovonramwen square. Putting sentiment aside, the best place to establish the National Museum in Benin City is no other place than its present location at Oba Ovonramwen square and it should be ...

Ovonramwen square. Putting sentiment aside, the best place to establish the National Museum in Benin City is no other place than its present location at Oba Ovonramwen square and it should be ...

STORY: After a decades-long repatriation campaign, Nigeria has received 119 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands.It is one of the largest restitutions of colonial-era artifacts since British forces ...

In February 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, a British expeditionary force sacked the ancient city of Benin. They exiled the oba, or ruler, Ovonramwen, and carted away more than ...

The Benin Kingdom yesterday unveiled a plan for the celebration of the one-time Oba of Benin and grandfather of the present monarch, Oba Ovonramwen N’Ogbaisi, who died in 1914.

The year 2014 marks 100 years since the 1914 death of Oba Ovonramwen N'ogbaisi, the then-sitting Oba who ruled as king from 1888 until 1897, and later died in exile in Calabar, where he was ...

Ada Wodu, Calabar The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has requested land to build a memorial for the late king of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ovonramwen. He made the request during a visit to the palace of the ...