By Jethro IbilekeThe newly deployed Commissioner of Police (CP) for Edo State, Betty Enekpen-Otimeyin, has warned operatives of the Command against extortion and random searching of phones of the ...

Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo has charged contractors handling some failed sections of the Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi highway to ensure the project is completed before the onset of the rainy ...

Voltaire said there are roughly 1.5 million Haitians in the United States and roughly 150,000 who were accepted under a ...

The Vodun religion, also spelled “Vodou,” originated in the Kingdom of Dahomey, present-day Benin, Nigeria, Togo and Ghana.

In a statement issued Jan. 10, Benin’s Catholic bishops said that diversity in opinions should be a “source of strength” for ...

Benin's Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a ...

“The Benin Kingdom had existed for hundreds of years undisturbed before this,” Holloway remarked. “The collective trauma of what happened in 1897 hasn’t really gone away because people go to museums ...

The Benin-born actor has starred in such critically-acclaimed films as 'Amistad' and 'Blood Diamond' Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...

Clad in white and pink, Deborah Bossou, 25, blends vibrant song with dance as she immerses herself with fellow practitioners in Vodun, traditional voodoo celebrations in Benin. This weekend ...

Clad in white and pink, Deborah Bossou, 25, blends vibrant song with dance as she immerses herself with fellow practitioners in Vodun, traditional voodoo celebrations in Benin. This weekend brought ...