Bauchi

Bauchi is a city in northeast Nigeria, the capital of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area inside that State, and of the conventional Bauchi Emirate. It is located at the northern edge of the Jos Plateau, at an elevation of 616 m. The Local Government Area covers an area of 3,687 km2 and had a population of 493,810 at the time of the 2006 Census. The town changed into based via Yaqub ibn Dadi, the best non-Fulani flag-bearer of the Sokoto Empire. The call became derived from a hunter known as Baushe, who advised Yaqub to construct his town west of the Warinje Mountain. In go back Yaqub promised to call his town after the hunter.

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is buried in the metropolis, whilst the Yankari National Park is a hundred and ten km from the state capital. The metropolis lies at the Port Harcourt Maiduguri railway line. The Bauchi State Library Board becomes installed in 1976. In July 2009, attacks in Bauchi by using Boko Haram following the arrest of some of its members resulted in over 50 people killed and over a hundred arrested. After the 2014 Chibok kidnapping, over two hundred students had been transferred to the Federal Government Girls College, Bauchi. The majority were from Federal Government Girls’ College, Potiskum, Yobe State.