The Bade Emirate is a traditional state with headquarters in Gashua

Gashua

Gashua is a community in Yobe State in northeastern Nigeria, on the Yobe River a few miles below the convergence of the Hadejia River and the Jama'are River. Average elevation is about 299 m. The population in 2006 was about 125,000....

, Yobe State

Yobe State

Yobe State is a state located in Northern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state, it was created on August 27, 1991. Yobe state was carved out of present-day Borno State. The capital of Yobe state is Damaturu.-Geography:...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

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. Alhaji Abubakar Umar Suleiman

Abubakar Umar Suleiman

Abubakar Umar Suleiman was turbaned as the 11th Emir of Bade on 12 November 2005. He is head of the traditional state of Bade with headquarters in Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria.- Biography :...

 is the 11th Emir of Bade (Mai Bede), of the Bedde dynasty, turbaned on 12 November 2005.

The Bade people

Bade language

Bade is a West Chadic language spoken by the Bade people in Yobe State and Jigawa State, Nigeria. Their traditional ruler is the Emir of Bade....

 are thought to have migrated to the area around 1300 CE, coming around the north of Lake Chad

Lake Chad

Lake Chad is a historically large, shallow, endorheic lake in Africa, whose size has varied over the centuries. According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95% from about 1963 to 1998; yet it also states that "the 2007 ...

 from Kanem

Kanem Empire

The Kanem Empire was located in the present countries of Chad, Nigeria and Libya. At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of southern Libya , eastern Niger and north-eastern Nigeria...

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In 1808 the Bade, then subject to the Bornu Empire

Bornu Empire

The Bornu Empire was an African state of Nigeria from 1396 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem Empire founded centuries earlier by the Sayfawa Dynasty...

, were attacked by Fulani jihad warriors, who were expanding their control across Northern Nigeria.
The emirate became independent in 1818 when Mai Lawan Babuje detached the Emirate from the Kanuri of Bornu and fortified Gorgorum as the capital of an independent state.
The state remained independent until the end of the century, when it fell to the Sudanese warrior Rabih az-Zubayr

Rabih az-Zubayr

Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah or Rabih Fadlallah , usually known as Rabah in French, was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire west of Lake Chad, in today's Chad....

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Following Rabih's death, in 1902 the British confirmed the independence of the Emirate.

Rulers

Rulers of the Emirate:

Title	Reign	Name	Birth/death
Mai Bedde		Dugum Bugia
Mai Bedde		Dugum Akuya dan Bugia
Mai Bedde	to 1842	Lawan Babuje dan Dugum Akuya	(d. 1842)
Mai Bedde	1842 - 1893	Al-Hajji dan Babuje	(d. 1893)
Mai Bedde	1893 - 1897	Duna dan al-Hajji
Mai Bedde	1897 - 1904	Salih dan al-Hajji	(d. 1919)
Emir	1904 - 1919	Salih dan al-Hajji	(see above)
Emir	1920 - 1941	Sulayman dan Salih
Emir	1942 - 1945	Mai Umara dan al-Hajji	(d. 1945)
Emir	1945 - 1981	Mai Umar dan Sulayman	(b. 1919 d. 1981)
Emir	1981 - 2005	Mai Saleh Ibn Suleiman II (OFR)	(b. 1925 d. 2005)
Emir	2005 -	Mai Abubakar Umar Suleiman Abubakar Umar Suleiman Abubakar Umar Suleiman was turbaned as the 11th Emir of Bade on 12 November 2005. He is head of the traditional state of Bade with headquarters in Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria.- Biography :...	(b. January 1962)