Kogu, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a large village in Biu LGA, of southwestern Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria. Kogu is located on a tributary of the Yangari River about southwest of the town of Biu.Nigeria topographic map, Series 1501 Air, NC-32-08 Gombe, Nigeria, Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250000 Scale, U.S. Army Map Service, 1967
Mari Watirwa, the 20th Emir of Biu, established his capital at Kogu about 1795, after he drove the Fulani out of Biu.Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1980) "Biu" Burke's Royal Families of the World: Africa & the Middle East (Volume 2 of Burke's royal families of the world) Burke's Peerage, London, page 177, Davies, J. G. (1954) The Biu book: a collation and reference book on Biu Division (Northern Nigeria) Norla, Zaria, Nigeria, page 38, In 1838, his grandson, Emir Mari Biya, moved the capital to the town of Biu.
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External links "Kogu Map — Satellite Images of Kogu" Maplandia World Gazetteer