Boko Haram
On Tuesday the group released a video in which Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria's elections at any cost.
The 15-minute video was released via the group's newly created Twitter account, prompting some analysts to question whether they had been influenced by Islamic State.
Previous Boko Haram videos were of a lower quality and distributed to journalists on DVD.
Also on Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed four and injured five at a restaurant near a military checkpoint in Potiskum, north-eastern Nigeria.
Meanwhile an attack at an opposition rally in the south of the country killed one police officer and injured four others, while a reporter covering the event was stabbed, according to news agency AFP.
The attack targeted a rally by the All Progressives Congress (APC) - Nigeria's main opposition - in Okrika, a small port town south of Port Harcourt in the heart of Nigeria's oil-producing region.
A rally organised by the All Progressives Congress in Okirika, home to Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, was disrupted twice on Wednesday.
The rally was first disrupted by triple bomb blasts which occurred a few minutes after the leadership and party faithful assembled at the Okirika National Secondary School field in the early hours of the day.
A source, who pleaded not to be named for security reasons, said that the rally had just got underway, when three bombs went off in quick succession in three different locations close to the venue of the programme. APC members were waiting for the rally to begin, witnesses said, when there was several explosions and gunfire.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack. Boko Haram is not known to operate in the region.
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