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Airfield plan of RAF Maiduguri

Thanks to RAF Museum, Hendon

The city of Maiduguri is also called Yerwa by its locals is the capital and the largest city of Borno
State in north-eastern Nigeria.The region was home to the Kanem-Bornu Empire for centuries.
Modern Maiduguri actually consists of two towns: Yerwa to the West and Old Maiduguri to the
east. Lake Chad is about 470 miles northeast.

Old Maiduguri was selected by the British as their military headquarters in 1907 while Yerwa was
selected at approximately the same time by Shehu Abubakar Garbai of Borno to replace Kukawa
as the new traditional capital of the Kanuri people.