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  The Nigerian Army has confirmed that a bomb explosion killed seven people in Maiduguri Tuesday evening. The army said three blasts detonated by suicide bombers occurred at three minutes intervals at Ajilari, Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Borno State. Eleven people were injured and three suicide bombers were among the dead, the army said. The army also gave details of the attack at a Mosque, Okene, where soldiers clashed with militants on Tuesday.

As part of its commitment to increase the impact of human rights work in Nigeria, global rights organisation, Amnesty International has announced the opening of its Nigerian office on Tuesday. The new Nigerian office, which will be headed by M.K. Ibrahim, a former career diplomat, will bolster “ongoing campaigning and research on Boko Haram, military abuses, use of torture, forced evictions and the right to adequate housing and oil pollution in the Niger Delta”, the organisation said in a statement.