The Benin Palace has banished the six traditional functionaries who were recently suspended for paying allegiance to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. The functionaries were accused of ...

This is a Benin bronze. It was cast by one of the Oba’s metalworkers to decorate the pillars of his palace. What can you see in this bronze? What might it represent? The Obas lived in a large ...

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewaure II, has clarified that the Labour Party governorship candidate, Barrister Olumide Akpata, is not a son of the palace but an industrious son of the Benin Kingdom.

Benin City is at least four miles wide ... plaques showing battle scenes and deeds of courage. The roofs of the palace have pointed turrets and on top of each turret there is a copper bird ...

The Oba made his opposition clear. "The right and only legitimate destination" for the Bronzes would be a "Benin Royal Museum", he said, sited within his palace grounds. He insisted that the ...