Abuja: A bomb exploded outside a busy night club in Abuja, just hours after the Nigerian President sacked national security adviser and defence minister, further fuelling unrest after recent attacks in the country's north.
The blast occurred around midnight, no human casualties were reported but it destroyed vehicles at the parking lot and shattered windows of some buildings.
"The explosions went off outside Kryxtal Lounge. Cars were destroyed, windows of the club and some nearby houses including a bank were affected but there were no human casualties.," spokesman for the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Yushau Shuaib, told PTI.
Earlier yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan had sacked his security adviser, General Owoye Azazi replacing him with Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
He also removed the defence minister, Bello Mohammed but did not announce a replacement immediately.
On Sunday, suicide bombers believed to be members of radical Islamic group Boko Haram went to three churches and killed no fewer than 18 persons in Nigeria's northern state of Kaduna triggering a reprisal that increased the death toll beyond 80.
Another attack in neighbouring state of Yobe by the insurgents on Monday brought the total death to 101.
Boko Haram has been waging war to install an Islamic government and Sharia rule in Africa's largest oil producer.
The group's insurgency has been growing in Nigeria and an attack in the northern city of Kano with multiple bombings and gun shots killed no fewer than 185 persons on January 20 this year.
A suicide bomb attack by the group at the United Nations headquarters in Abuja in July last year killed 26 persons.
The group has also bombed churches and attacked mosques making its motive somehow hazy.
The 150-million Nigeria has both Muslim and Christian population, with Muslims predominant in the north while Christians mostly live in the South.
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