Bama is a town and a local government area in the central part of Borno State, Nigeria.

Bama typically receives about 36.06 millimeters (1.42 inches) of precipitation and has 61.03 rainy days (16.72% of the time) annually.

[8] In December 2014, it was reported that "people too elderly to flee Gwoza Local Government Area were being rounded up and taken to two schools where the militants opened fire on them."

[9] A "gory video" was released of insurgents shooting over a hundred civilians in a school dormitory in the town of Bama.

[11] On 22 June 2016, the NGO Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) reported a "catastrophic humanitarian emergency" in a camp for refugees fleeing Boko Haram near the town of Bama.