Nigeria
Maiduguri, likewise called Yerwa or Yerwa-Maiduguri, capital and biggest city of Borno state, northeastern Nigeria. It is situated along the occasional Ngadda (Alo) River, the waters of which vanish in the firki ("dark cotton") marshes of Lake Chad, upper east of the city.
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Current Maiduguri really contains the twin towns of Yerwa and Maiduguri. In 1907 Yerwa was established on the site of the villa of Kalwa and was named by Shehu ("Sheik" or "Ruler") Bukar Garbai as the new conventional capital of the Kanuri public (supplanting Kukawa, 80 miles [130 km] north-upper east, the previous capital of the Bornu realm [see Kanem-Bornu]). In the interim, the market town of Maiduguri, just toward the south, was chosen by the British to supplant close by Mofoni (Maifoni, Mafoni) as their military central command, and, in 1908, they assembled a residency in what at that point turned into the capital of British Bornu. The joined city—privately called Yerwa—was partitioned into the metropolitan area of Yerwa and the country locale of Maiduguri in 1957, yet outside Borno both political units are currently referred to just as Maiduguri.
The appearance of the railroad in 1964 strengthened Maiduguri's significance as the central business focus of northeastern Nigeria. Animals (fundamentally steers yet in addition goats and sheep), steers stows away, goatskins and sheepskins, completed cowhide items, dried fish (brought from Lake Chad), and gum arabic are the city's main fares, and there is additionally neighborhood exchange sorghum, millet, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and rice. There is an enormous cows farm at close by Gombole, and there is poultry cultivating in the encompassing open country. The Monday market at Yerwa, a convention brought from Kukawa, is the biggest in the state.
Maiduguri's populace comprises fundamentally of Muslim Kanuri and Shuwa people groups with an admixture of Christian Nigerians from the south. Since the mid-1960s the city has gotten a significant mechanical and instructive place for Borno state. Other than food-preparing offices, its enterprises fabricate cowhide merchandise, wooden and metal furnishings, nails, and aluminum and steel auxiliary items.
Instructive offices incorporate the University of Maiduguri (1975), Ramat Polytechnic, Borno State College of Legal and Islamic Studies, and Kashim Ibrahim College of Education. The college works a showing medical clinic, and there is additionally an overall clinic in the city. The Lake Chad Research Institute is situated in Maiduguri.
The city is overwhelmed by the royal residence and contiguous mosque of the shehu of Bornu, a significant conventional Muslim pioneer in Nigeria. The city lies on the back of the noteworthy explorer course from Senegal to Mecca. It is the end for the fundamental railroad line connecting northeastern Nigeria to Port Harcourt. Served by the primary parkway framework, it is a center point for optional interstates serving the state. There is an air terminal found 5.5 miles (9 km) west of Maiduguri. Since 2009 ordinary exercises in the city and encompassing zones have been upset by the presence of Boko Haram, an Islamic assailant bunch known for submitting demonstrations of brutality. Pop. (2016 est.) metropolitan agglom., 1,065,000.
