Image caption, This brass plaque shows the Oba, or King, of Benin and his attendants. Why do you think the Oba is shown to be much bigger than the other people? The plaque is on display at the ...

was silent on the name of the aspirant but said some of those jostling for the party’s ticket had given tacit support to former Governor Godwin Obaseki against the revered Benin Monarch, Oba ...

The Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin was almost entirely destroyed in 1897, and the English razed the residence of the Ashanti king at Kumasi in 1874. Abomey is small, lush and slow-paced ...

Nigerian royals have claimed Cambridge University bosses were “duped” into an agreement to repatriate the Benin Bronzes and must now return them to a local king. In 2022, the university ...

The presiding Priest of Holy Aruosa Cathedral, Ohen-osa Edebiri Igbinoghodua, has admonished worshippers to remain steadfast ...

The Court of the Oba of Benin, thought to have been painted in the 1940s, is described as a "masterpiece" by the auctioneers, but was never documented and was held in a private collection.

And whoever is governor, the Oba, Ewuare II - great-great-grandson of the king deposed by the British - will remain committed to it, and the principle that the Benin Bronzes should come home.

Image caption, This brass plaque shows the Oba, or King, of Benin and his attendants. Why do you think the Oba is shown to be much bigger than the other people? The plaque is on display at the ...