Maiduguri:
Maiduguri is the capital and largest city of Borno state, northeastern Nigeria. It is located on the north bank of the seasonal Ngadda (Alo) River, the waters of which disappear in the firki (“black cotton”) swamps just southwest of Lake Chad, about 70 miles (113 km) northeast.
Maiduguri’s population consists mainly of Muslim Kanuri and Shuwa peoples with an admixture of Christian Nigerians from the south. Since the mid-1960s the city has become an important industrial and educational center for Borno state. Besides food-processing facilities (slaughterhouse, meat-refrigeration plant, peanut-oil mill, and chewing-gum factory), its industries manufacture leather goods, wooden and metal furniture, nails, aluminum and steel structural products, and asbestos cement. The government has launched a reforestation project in the area around the city, in part to provide wood for its industries.
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