A group of heavily armed men attacked an electoral commission office and a police station in southeastern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing one teenager and wounding another, three weeks before the country’s presidential election, official sources said Thursday.
Nigerians are due to choose a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari on 25 February, a former general who is not standing for re-election after two terms in office failed to curb the serious security problems plaguing the country: a violent jihadist insurgency in the north-east, separatist tensions in the south, and rising crime in the north-west and centre.
On Wednesday morning, men in four cars armed with “improvised explosive devices” attacked an electoral commission office, a police station and a residential building adjacent to the station, according to a statement from the police in the southeastern state of Anambra.
“Unfortunately, a 16-year-old boy, a relative of an on-duty police officer, was killed
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