Mubi

Mubi is a town in the Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria, divided into the two areas of Mubi North and Mubi South. The main peoples of the town are the Fali, Gude, Mafa, Kamwe, Margi and Mundang. Mubi has four higher institutions of learning: the Federal Polytechnic Mubi, a campus of the College of Health Technology, Adamawa State University Mubi and the Federal University of Agriculture Mubi. At the centre of the town stands its well known cattle market, called Kasuwan Shanu, where cattle and sheep are bought by customers from north-eastern Nigeria and sent by truck to other parts of southern Nigeria. The climate is classed as tropical wet and dry (Aw) in the Koeppen-Geiger system. The town was attacked by Boko Haram several times between 2012 and 2018, and the group held it for a short period in October and November 2014 before the Nigerian Army retook it.