Mubi is a town in Northern Senatorial District of

Adamawa State Adamawa is a States of Nigeria, state in the North East (Nigeria), North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno State, Borno to the northwest, Gombe State, Gombe to the west, and Taraba State, Taraba to the southwest while its eas ...

, northeast

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

. It is subdivided into two Mubi north and Mubi south.

Demographics

The major tribes of the town are Fali, Gude, Mafa, Kamwe, Margi and

Mundang Mundang is an Mbum language of southern Chad and northern Cameroon, spoken by the Mundang people. The Gelama dialect of Cameroon may be a separate language. Distribution Mundang, spoken in Cameroon by 44,700 speakers (SIL 1982), is mainly spoke ...

(Godo-godo).

Education

Mubi has four higher institutions of learning:

Federal Polytechnic, Mubi Federal Polytechnic, Mubi is a polytechnic based in Mubi, Adamawa State, Northeastern Nigeria. The polytechnic is one of the seven federal polytechnics established by a decree in 1979. It opened in August of the same year as the Federal Polytechn ...

, College of Health Technology (Mubi Campus),

Adamawa State University Adamawa State University is located in Mubi, in the Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa State, Nigeria. It was established in 2002 by the Adamawa State University Law No. 10 of 2001. The title caption of the university is "Towards ensuring ...

, Mubi, and The Federal University of Agriculture, Mubi.

Boko Haram takeover

Some media outlets said that the city was renamed to ''Madinatul

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'', meaning ''city of Islam'' by

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group

Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (), is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group spli ...

in October 2014 when they captured the town under their control. In November 2014, the

Nigerian Army The Nigerian Army (NA) is the land force of the Nigerian Armed Forces. It is the largest component of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President of Nigeria is the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Army, and its professional head is the Chie ...

took back control of Mubi from Boko Haram. Adamawa State governor Bala James Ngilari said

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forces had recaptured the town from Boko Haram. Some reports said Boko Haram had withdrawn from the town after

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peoples goods and money to their hideout from the town, rather than as the result of direct fighting. However, Bala Ngilari's chief of staff, Chibudo Babbi, told the BBC Hausa Service that remnants of the group were flushed out of Mubi by the military.

Massacres

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

attack on 2 October 2012 when suspected members of Boko Haram entered the town at around 10pm and killed many people. The large majority of the victims were students from the three educational institutions ( Federal Polytechnic Mubi, School Of Health Technology and

) based in the town. The death toll was put at 25 initially, however, the number is said to be closer to 45. A

bombing A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechan ...

occurred in Mubi on 1 June 2014. On 21 November 2017, a

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ing at a

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during morning prayers killed an estimate 25-50 people. Boko Haram is the suspected perpetrator. Suicide bombings occurred at a mosque and market in Mubi in 2018.

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical wet and dry (Aw).

Cattle market

Mubi is the home of the state famous international cattle market popularly known as kasuwan shanu or Kasuwan tike situated at the center of the town, large numbers of cattle and sheep are bought by customers mainly from north eastern Nigeria and being distributed to different parts of southern Nigeria by trailers and trucks.

Notable residents

Mubi is home to prominent Nigerians including: *

Iya Abubakar Iya Abubakar (born 14 December 1934) is a Nigerian politician and mathematician who held multiple cabinet level appointments (Defence Minister of Nigeria, Minister of Defence and Ministry of Interior (Nigeria)#List of Ministers, Minister of Inte ...

(Prof of Mathematics) * Alex Badeh (Former Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria) *

Ibrahim Lamorde Ibrahim Abdullahi Lamorde (20 December 1962 – 25 May 2024) was a Nigerian police officer who was appointed Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 23 November 2011 after chairman Farida Waziri had been dismis ...

(Former EFCC Chairman)

References

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