Radisson Hotel Group has revealed further advancement of its expansion plans in Nigeria by confirming the signing of Radisson Hotel Benin City. This 169-room hotel, expected to commence operations ...

London’s Horniman Museum has announced it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897. We investigate their story.

A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government. The Horniman Museum and Gardens, located in south London, announced the transfer in a ...

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government.

Benin City is not a megalopolis like Lagos, but its 1.8 million people still generate a lot of traffic. The most conspicuous structure inside the oval is a huge metal billboard frame.

World Smithsonian returns stolen Benin bronzes to Nigeria. See the stunning art collection By Aspen Pflughoeft October 13, 2022 11:01 AM ...

The bronzes consist of thousands of sculptures and plaques that British forces looted from Benin City, in what is now southern Nigeria, during a raid in 1897. Many wound up in museums around the ...

The Smithsonian Institution last year gave Nigeria 29 Benin Bronzes. It was “none of the Smithsonian’s business” what subsequently happened to them, a museum spokeswoman said.

The birthplace of the Benin Bronzes—artifacts considered some of Africa’s greatest treasures, which in the 19th century were controversially looted from Benin’s royal palaces—the city’s ...

LONDON — A museum in southeast London agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain ...