SECURITY: Abuja to Shut Down As World Economic Forum Holds

Nigeria's government would be shutting down schools and government offices across the nation's capital Abuja, while a World Economic Forum conference takes place next week.

A big security operation has been promised to protect the more than 1,000 delegates at the three-day meeting, jsut after two deadly bomb attacks in Abuja.

An explosion late on Thursday killed 19 people, two weeks after a nearby bombing left 75 dead.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram is being blamed for the violence.

The same group is believed to be behind the kidnapping of more than 230 teenage girls from their school in Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria more than a fortnight ago.

The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed in the violence and subsequent security crackdown this year alone.

PHOTO: Abuja Bomb Blast Scene