More than 20 suspects have been arrested during the first operation launched by Edo Special Security Squad to flush out ...

LAST month an extraordinary collection of photographs returned to Nigeria. Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge took pictures of the people of Benin City for over half a century, amassing an archive of ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

Benin City, the capital of the old Benin Kingdom and present day Edo State, is an ancient city struggling with modernity. Relics of its past glory are struggling for prominence with modernity.

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is pleased to announce the official public opening of the first phase of its Campus ...

Lagos has long been Nigeria’s creative pulse, an electrifying, sprawling city home to some of the most exciting and well-regarded fashion, music and artistic talents of recent years. But an hour’s ...

The Metropolitan Museum, which has some 160 items from Benin City, including a renowned ivory mask, has not made any announcements about restitution.

When a Benin City boy like Nigerian Afrobeats sensation Rema rises to global stardom, what does he do? He returns home for a victory lap.

In Benin City, there has been a huge jump in awareness about the looted objects in the last decade, and artists, historians and activists have intensified their calls for restitution.