The Benin Tradition Council has banned the wearing of chieftaincy traditional costumes specifically meant for the Oba of ...

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 ...

The royal treasures were shown in the presidential palace as part of a world-class exhibition, Art of Benin from Yesterday and Today, which attracted more than 200,000 visitors in three months.

Benin was a large and varied kingdom ... knees and nobody could look at him without his permission. Palace chiefs ran the royal court, organised the craft workers and made agreements with European ...

Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum said they were "honoured" to be working with colleagues from Edo State, the Benin Royal Palace, the Legacy Restoration Trust, the National ...

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 ...

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 ...