Nigeria Bombs kill at least 44

Two bombs exploded at a crowded mosque and a Muslim restaurant in Nigeria's central city of Jos, killing 44 people, officials said on Monday.

The blasts which occurred on Sunday night, came hours after a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded evangelical Christian church service in the north-eastern city of Potiskum, killing at least five people.

Also on Sunday, extremists returned to north-eastern villages which had been attacked three days earlier, killing nine people and burning down 32 churches and about 300 homes, according to the chairman of a self-defence group in Borno State.

Sunday's attacks are the latest in a string blamed on Boko Haram that have now killed more than 250 people over a week.