All of the objects were taken from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now the capital of Edo State ... Horniman Museum and Gardens,” said Abba Tijani, director general of Nigeria’s National ...

Come 2026, these treasures will have a lasting home in Benin City’s new Edo Museum of West African ... co-chair Professor Abba Tijani of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments ...

Edo State has moved several ... Edo will become one of the few states in Nigeria with multiple cultural infrastructures, including the Royal Benin Museum, the National Museum and the Edo Museum ...

Nigeria has been negotiating their return and plans to build a museum in Benin City in the southern Edo State, where it hopes ... The head of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and ...

The artefact is a "Benin Bronze", a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria ... the Nigerian state. There are plans to build a museum in Benin City in southern Edo state, where ...

The Netherlands has revealed that over 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s into a Dutch museum will ... day Nigeria’s Edo state was destroyed ...

Hundreds of Benin ... Edo State. In that role, Obaseki scored some success against one of Nigeria’s most overwhelming problems: unreliable electricity. Three-quarters of the Nigerian national ...

Smithsonian officials announce the transfer of ownership of 29 works of art to Nigeria; 20 will be returned (above: Bell, Benin kingdom court style, Edo artist ... s National Museum of African ...