herself in northern Nigeria's Gombe city,
minutes after President Goodluck
Jonathan left a campaign rally there. At least one person was killed and 18 others
were wounded in the blast, police and
hospital sources said. Mr Jonathan is standing for re-election on 14
February against former military ruler
Muhammadu Buhari. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has
stepped up its attacks in the run-up to the
contest. It has not commented on the blast. Explosions have also ripped through court
buildings in three towns in oil-rich southern
Nigeria in what police described as co-
ordinated attacks. Dynamite was suspected to have been used
in the attacks in Port Harcourt city and the
towns of Isiokpo and Degema in oil-rich
Rivers State, regional police spokesman
Ahmad Muhammed said. There were no casualties, but the court
building in Degema was "razed down and
documents burnt", he is quoted by Nigeria's privately owned Daily Trust newspaper as saying. Boko Haram is not known to be active in the
oil-producing region, where militants
demanding a greater share of Nigeria's oil
wealth have carried out attacks in the past. 'Angry youth' In the blast in Gombe, the bomber blew
herself up near a car, Gombe state police
spokesman Fwaje Atajiri told the BBC. He said a female passerby had been killed,
contradicting earlier reports that three
people had been killed in the blast.
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