History books cited by foremost newspaper columnist, Lasisi Olagunju, indicate that Yoruba, not Benin, founded Lagos, contrary to Oba Ewuare II's claim.

Russian glide bombs and ballistic missiles have struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility; 'Worst-case scenario of ...

However, in the case of the Benin Bronzes, selling the artifacts couldn’t be further from Stanley’s mission. Layiwola, whose guidance was critical to the success of the restitution process, introduced ...

France's government on Wednesday discussed a bill designed to speed up the return of artworks looted during the colonial era ...

AGENCIES | In the largest restitution of its kind, the Netherlands recently returned 119 Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian ...

Recommending Oba Erediauwa to President Tinubu”, this is the response I got from one of the Benin Palace functionaries:“Making mention of the year Oba Erediauwa reigned on the throne of his forebears ...

For a long time, this has been the situation with artifacts plundered from the African continent during the colonial period — with Nigeria’s Benin Bronzes being one of the most high-profile ...

Peju Layiwola is a curator at the museum, who attended a ceremony at the royal palace in Benin City to return the art to the oba, or king, of Benin. “The palace still exists.

A former Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University and Awise Agbaye, Prof Wande Abimbola, in this interview with ...

A brass plaque from the Benin Kingdom features an oba, or king, with a mudfish at his waist, holding a leopard by the tail in each hand. The plaque is one of the objects stolen during the 1897 raid.

On 14 January 2015, a fire has once again ravaged the Palace of the King Houégbadja in the Royal Palaces of Abomey World Heritage property in Benin. Thankfully there were no victims. Despite the ...