Hadejia

Hadejia (Hausa: Haɗejiya, also Haɗeja, formerly Biram) is a Hausa town in eastern Jigawa State, northern Nigeria. It lies north of the Hadejia River, upstream from the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, an ecologically sensitive zone of international importance. The town is counted among the seven true Hausa states (Hausa Bakwai) and was ruled by descendants of the legendary figure Bayajidda and his second wife Daurama until the Fulani overcame the Hausa rulers by 1810. It became an emirate in 1808, resisted British occupation in 1906 under Emir Muhammadu Mai-Shahada, and passed from Kano State to Jigawa State in 1991. Most inhabitants are Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri and mostly Muslim, living by crop farming, herding, trade and fishing, and the town is a market for cotton, millet, sorghum, fish, rice and groundnuts, connected to the main highway and railway.