A suicide bomber has killed three people at church in the Nigerian city of Jos.
A man drove an explosives packed car into a church in Nigeria's volatile central city of Jos.
The attack is the latest in a country grappling with what have become almost daily assaults, most of them blamed on the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Church workers said a car forced its way through the gate during an early morning service.
Boko Haram has been blamed for a wave of increasingly bloody gun and bomb attacks in several parts of Africa's most populous country in recent months, mostly in the Muslim-dominated north.
Incidents of attacks are also growing in the central region, the so-called middle belt which divides the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.
Last Sunday several people were wounded in an explosion near a church outside the capital, Abuja.
Boko Haram has targeted Christians on several previous occasions, notably with a series of coordinated blasts on Christmas Day.
Elsewhere, Nigeria's ruling party candidate has won a governorship election by a landslide in Cross Rivers state, a relatively peaceful, stable area of the oil-producing Niger Delta.
Incumbent governor Liyel Imoke of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) won yesterday's election with 94% in the state, where most voters are from President Goodluck Jonathan's Ijaw ethnic group.
Nigeria's 36 state governors control budgets bigger than many African countries' and are some of the most powerful politicians in the nation.
