Bowdoin College has been educating leaders for America and the world since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,750 students of distinction from across America and around the world.

Interest in robotics has grown so steadily that a Bowdoin robotics lab recently was built that includes, among other things, soccer-playing robot dogs, called AIBOs. Bowdoin's AIBO team, Northern Bites, recently competed in the RoboCup U.S. Open 2005, which features teams developed by students at colleges and universities around the world.

It's all part of Chown's plan to attract more students to computer science, but he also has a more "subversive" reason for using robotics in the classroom: He thinks robots have as much to teach us about being humanof the Warinje mountain.  In return Yaqub promised to name his city after the hunter.

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is buried in the city, while the Yankari National Park is 110 km from the state capital.  The city lies on the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri railway line. The Bauchi State Library Board was established in 1976.

In July 2009, attacks in Bauchi by Boko Haram following the arrest of some of its members resulted in over 50 people killed and over 100 arrested.

After the 2014 Chibok kidnapping, over 200 students were transferred to the Federal Government Girls College, Bauchi. The majority were from Federal Government Girls’ College, Potiskum, Yobe State.

Transport 
Bauchi was originally served by a narrow gauge  light railway, but this was later converted to the normal gauge