“That Edo State Government should immediately set machinery in motion to support our referred Palace to construct the ...

The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty Oba Ewuare II, has publicly corrected Labour Party gubernatorial candidate Olumide Akpata for claiming to be a “son of the Palace”. Akpata, during a recent ...

will host a new Benin Royal Museum. European museums will take turns to lend (although some may donate) a few hundred Benin Bronzes. The effect, says the Oba's Palace, will be a "permanent ...

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 ...

I want to be delivered I don’t want to have anything to do with this deity I am not looking for the glory of those practices, ...

Protesting leaders and members of Edo State Market Women Association and Traders Welfare Union yesterday stormed the palace of Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II ...

Benin was a large and varied kingdom ... The two smaller figures hold symbols of his power. Palace chiefs ran the royal court. Their jobs were passed down from father to son.

Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan ... battle scenes and deeds of courage. The roofs of the palace have pointed turrets and on top of each turret there ...

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, on Saturday, welcomed ancestral relations to the Palace for the 2024 Emorọ festival, (a celebration of the new yam harvest).

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, on Saturday, welcomed ancestral relations to the Palace for the 2024 Emorọ festival, (a celebration of the new yam harvest). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that ...