Blast in Taraba State wounds eight

An explosion near a state television studio in Taraba State wounded eight people overnight, the emergency services said on Saturday.
It was the second blast in the remote town of Jalingo, in Nigeria’s volatile ethnically and religiously mixed Middle Belt, in two days.
A blast at an outdoor bar there killed at least one person and wounded 14 on Thursday.
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman Yushua Shuaib said by text message that a woman and five children were among the wounded, alongside two others. The blast happened near a studio of the state-owned NTA television station.
There was no claim of responsibility for either blast, although suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging a low level insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government.
The insurgents want to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, a country of 160 million people split about evenly between Christians and Muslims. reuters