Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno state, was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British colonial authority. It consists of two cities – Yerwa to the west and Old Maiduguri to the east. While Yerwa was founded in 1907 by Sheikh Abubakar Garbai as the capital of the Bornu Kingdom, old Maiduguri was selected by the British as their military headquarters, replacing Mafoni. The same year it became the location for the British resident commissioner over British Bornu.
Col. Tunde Idiagbon, the Borno state military administrator at that time, engaged Songhai Construction Company, whose general manager was the late Mala Alamai, a respected Borno indigene, to build the new market. However, Idiagbon had to leave the construction of the new Monday Market to his successor, Muhammadu Goni, who took over as governor in October 1979.
Since then, there had been fire outbreaks, now and then, until the recent mysterious one of Sunday, February 26, in which goods worth billions of naira were lost in the inferno that razed the market to ashes.
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