How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 13:00 GMT in advance of our live text commentary stream. Nigeria host Benin in the final matchday of the FIFA World Cup 2026 ...
As the first Radisson branded hotel outside of Lagos and Abuja, the Radisson Hotel Benin City will continue to reinforce the brand awareness in Nigeria. Radisson Hotel Group has revealed further ...
A London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government. The Horniman Museum and Gardens, located in south London, announced the transfer in a news ...
Nigeria’s president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup attempt by mutinous soldiers.
Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by conquest and loss to become a bustling urban center of more than 2 million residents. Once the heart of the powerful Kingdom of ...
In 2020, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art began researching the provenance of pieces in its collection that might have originated at the royal court of Benin. The court, located in ...
LONDON (AP) — A London museum agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under ...
By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Robbie Corey-Boulet LAGOS, Dec 8 - Nigerian fighter jets and ground troops moved on Monday to help restore order after a foiled coup attempt in Benin, aiming to head off a ...
When British soldiers stole the treasured works in 1897, it left a gaping hole in an ancient culture. With a few set to return to Nigeria, can their meaning be restored, too? By Ruth Maclean and Alex ...