The Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City announces the death of Archbishop Augustine Akubeze at 69. Learn more about the life ...

Catholic Archbishop of Benin, Most Rev. Fr. Augustine Obiora Akubeze, has died barely one month before his retirement.

President Romuald Wadagni of Benin, in the early hours of this morning, arrived in Addis Ababa for an official working visit aimed at further strengthening bilateral relations between Ethiopia and ...

Hundreds of the artefacts were taken from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now part of Nigeria, after British forces attacked in 1897.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and its Benin Republic counterpart have forged a new partnership on geospatial technology to strengthen economic security and surveillance along their shared border ...

A century and a half after Cudjo Lewis was taken from Benin, his great‑great‑granddaughter Cassandra Lewis has become the ...

Benin’s Minister of Finance Romuald Wadagni has secured a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election with more than 94 percent of the votes, according to provisional results. Sacca Lafia ...

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, has received 18 cultural artefacts repatriated from Switzerland ...

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The looted artifacts were in the collections of three Swiss museums.