History of Yobe State

second oldest ship in the world

Birni Ngazargamu , also called Gazargamu, Gazargamo, Ngazargamo, and '''N'gazargamu''', was the capital of the Kanem–Bornu Empire from the city's foundation in the 15th century to its destruction and abandonment in the Fula jihads in the early 19th century. Ngazargamu was situated in the fork of the Komadugu Gana River and the Komadugu Yobe, near present-day Geidam, west of Lake Chad in the Yobe State of modern Nigeria.