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11-645: BIU , Biu or biu may refer to: Biu, Nigeria , a town in Nigeria Biu Emirate , a traditional state Biu Plateau , the highland area Bar-Ilan University , a university in Israel Bermuda Industrial Union , a general trade union in Bermuda Biu (footballer) (born 1936), Brazilian footballer Bus Interface Unit, a part of a processor that interfaces with

22-664: A system bus BIU, the IATA airport code for Bíldudalur Airport in Iceland When stylized as B I U , stands for bold , italic and underline , three common ways to mark emphasis in typography biu, the ISO 639 code of the Biate language of northeast India See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Biu Biu–Mandara languages , a language group of Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon Topics referred to by

33-595: A disease that spreads through drinking contaminated water. About 600 people were rushed to the Biu General Hospital for diagnosis and treatment. The management of the hospital, in conjunction with the State Ministry of Health, decided to evacuate the patients to an isolated treatment camp. Biu experiences a yearly temperature of 32.16 oC, 2.7% higher than Nigeria's national average, with 36.38 millimeters of precipitation and 61.57 wet days (16.87% of

44-455: A large number of rural communities in addition to Biu, which include: ° Dibirow ° Gur ° Kagul ° Kunar ° Kugur ° Viu kutha ° Wurang Malnutrition in southern Borno State is extensive. In 2005, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) set up an intensive care feeding center in Biu hospital, the main referral hospital for the region. In October 2009 there was an outbreak of Cholera in the area,

55-481: Is a small mining industry in Biu, with iron ore , gravel, magnesite , uranium , feldspar , topaz , mica , granite , aquamarine , nephelite , and salt being extracted. As of 2010 , the Gombe-Biu-Mubi road was in poor repair. In early 2022, the area was earmarked to receive vital infrastructure funds from multiple international charities to improve transport links. The Biu Local Government Area has

66-599: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Biu, Nigeria Biu is a town and a Local Government Area (LGA) in southern Borno State of Nigeria . The town is the administrative center of the LGA and was once the capital of the Biu kingdom, and is now capital of the Biu Emirate . Biu lies on the Biu Plateau at an average elevation of 626 meters. The region

77-568: Is now situated in the town. With British rule, Biu division was created in 1918. Mai Ari Dogo was acknowledged as the first emir of Biu in 1920. The area became known as the Biu federation after 1957, when the districts of Shani and Askira were added to the emirate. Maidalla Mustafa dan Muhammad (b. 1915) became Mai Biu, also styled Kuthli, in 1959. The inhabitants of the region are mainly Babur and Bura people (also known as Pabir ), Tera , Bura , Marghi , Mina and Fulani people. Babur, Bura, Tera, Marghi and Mina are Biu–Mandara languages of

88-519: Is semi-arid. The name of Biu was initially called Viu which in Babur and Bura Language means high. The Biu kingdom became established around 1670 in the reign of Mari Watila Tampta. King Mari Watirwa (r. 1793–1838), whose capital was near Biu at Kogu , defeated Fulani invaders from the Gombe Emirate to the west. In 1878 Mari Biya, became the first Babur king to rule from Biu. The emir's palace

99-560: The Chadic language group. The LGA is mostly located in the northern Guinea savannah (NGA) agroecological zone, with a small portion in the northeast, the Kimba area, lying in the dryer Sudan savannah zone. The economy is mixed agricultural, based on herding cattle, goats, sheep, horses, and donkeys and farming sorghum , millet , maize , cowpea , and cotton . Agriculture consists mostly of small farms using traditional methods. There

110-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BIU . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BIU&oldid=1149537660 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

121-619: The time). Biu%E2%80%93Mandara languages The Biu–Mandara or Central Chadic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family are spoken in Nigeria , Chad and Cameroon . A reconstruction of Proto-Central Chadic has been proposed by Gravina (2014). Gravina (2014) classifies Central Chadic as follows, as part of a reconstruction of the proto-language. Letters and numbers in parentheses correspond to branches in previous classifications. The greatest changes are breaking up and reassigning

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