Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, on Monday said that the 43 Field Development Plans (FDPs) recorded this year could unlock 1.7 billion ...

On Jan. 20, 1894, Béhanzin, the 11th ruler of Dahomey — the kingdom in the area today known as Benin — stood before his subjects, fully aware it would be for the last time. Soon he would surrender ...

Trump signs executive order to end collective bargaining at agencies involved with national security ‘The Masked Singer' Reveals Identity of Cherry Blossom: Here Is the Celebrity Under the Costume ...

The first sign that things are askew is the talking sculpture. "It was so dark in this foreign place that I lost myself in these dreams," a centuries-old effigy murmurs over a pitch-black screen. Its ...

The all-conquering Korean show returns for a second season. Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), determined to find a way to destroy the competition, takes part in the games again. This season should throw ...

In Mati Diop’s Dahomey (2024), colonial spoils being returned to their land of origin after a century is surveyed in its heated political register. Its central act of restitution of 26 Beninese ...

In Diop's gaze, Dahomey begins as a ghost story. This voice of the artefact is aware of the phase of transit, that a series of other statues are being taken back to their homeland. Diop gives voice to ...

Narrative change organisation Africa No Filter and Cairo International Film Festival have awarded a new prize, the Africa Narrative Change Film Award, to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 royal ...

In her Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, French-­Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop charts the return of 26 artefacts looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey as they make their way back from ...

In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin. Their ...