Mubi

Mubi

      town, northeastern Adamawa state, northeastern Nigeria. It lies on the west bank of the Yedseram River, a stream that flows north into Lake Chad, and is situated on the western flanks of the Mandara Mountains.

      Probably founded in the late 18th century by the Fulani people, Mubi remained under the jurisdiction of the sultanate of Mandara until conquered in the Fulani jihad (holy war) by Modibbo Adama. By the 1820s the peoples of Mubi and the surrounding area were incorporated into Adama's Fulani kingdom of Fumbina, later called Adamawa; in the 1890s they were subjected to slave raids by Adamawa's emir Zubeiru. The town was taken by German forces in 1903 and served as a frontier post and administrative centre of German Kamerun until its capture by the British in 1914. Mubi and its surrounding region were placed in the British Cameroons by a League of Nations mandate in 1922. In 1961 it became part of Nigeria. The town is the site of a federal polytechnic college. Pop. (2006) local government area, 280,009.

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