The Borno Police Command has confirmed two more explosions after a separate suspected suicide bombing in Maiduguri, the state capital earlier on Friday.
Personnel of the Nigerian Police Force in Borno State have averted a suicide attack in the Jiddari Poli area of Maiduguri during the early hours of Friday.
Violence was averted in Nkwagu, a town close to Abakiliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, on Saturday evening when some police officers clashed with soldiers from a nearby Army Cantonment.
Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris has issued a stern warning to members of the 'BringBackOurGirls', BBOG, campaign group to carry out their protest within the ambit of the law and refrain from deliberative provocation of law enforcement officers.
The Ahmed Makarfi-led faction Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the call for the postponement of the Edo State governorship election as shocking, bizzare, confusing and a plot to scuttle the country’s nascent democracy.
