Some people lived in villages and small towns, but most people lived and worked in Benin City. The most important person in the kingdom was the king, known as the Oba. Hundreds of men and women ...
In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups ... The brass casters’ guild was only allowed to work for the Oba (king). These leopards were made in the 1800s. They are probably copies ...
Fred Itua, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Benin City. Itua added that ... statutory rights of the Oba of Benin on the ownership ...