Nigeria's Mowaa museum: Edo protesters storm brand new home for West African art

The museum authority has cancelled all preview events leading up to Tuesday's grand opening.

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Videos showed a group insulting foreign guests and ordering them to leave after entering the grounds of the Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) in Benin City on Sunday.

They were angry that the museum was not called the Benin Royal Museum and was not under the control of the Oba, the area's traditional king.

With preservation and restoration facilities, Mowaa was in part conceived as a home for the Benin Bronzes - artefacts looted from there by British soldiers in the 19th Century. But a dispute over ownership has meant they are not at the museum.

All guests were safely escorted to secure locations, according to a statement from the museum.