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Gobir (Demonym: Gobirawa) was a city-state in what is now Nigeria.
Founded by the
Hausa in the 11th century,
Gobir was one of the
seven original kingdoms...
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Yakubu was
ruler of the
Hausa city-state of
Gobir (in what is now
northern Nigeria) from 1795 to 1801.
Succeeding Bawa,
Yakubu waged a
number of military...
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exiled from
Gobir by King Yunfa, one of his
former students.
Usman dan
Fodio ****embled an
Islamic army to lead a
jihad against Gobir and
other Hausa...
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Sarki Nafata of
Gobir (r. 1797–98), one of a
series of
rulers of the
small Hausa state of
Gobir,
today in
northern Nigeria is best
remembered for his...
- (reigned 1801–1808) was a king of
Gobir, a city-state in
Hausaland in what is now Nigeria. He was the son of a
Sultan of
Gobir Nafata. He is
particularly remembered...
- faithful). He
rejected the
throne and
continued calling to Islam. Born in
Gobir,
Usman was a
descendant of the
Torodbe clans of
urbanized ethnic Fulani...
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Yusuf Amuda Gobir (2
October 1934 – 28
December 1975) was a
Nigerian administrator who
worked his way up from
state service to
become a
federal Permanent...
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Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir (born 1
January 1958) is a
Nigerian politician who was
Senator for
Sokoto East from 2011 to 2023. He was the
Senate Majority Leader...
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Umaru al
Kammu engaged the
numerically superior Gobir cavalry at
Kwatto Lake near the
Capital fort of
Gobir; Alkalawa. The
Fulani archers emplo**** a square...
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significant following that
granted him
considerable influence within Gobir. The
ruler of
Gobir at the time, Bawa,
found himself in a
delicate situation, attempting...
