All schools and government offices in Nigeria’s capital will close during a three-day international conference next week, according to a presidential order that follows two bomb attacks in three weeks that killed nearly 100 people in Abuja.

Despite growing public anger, Nigeria’s army today appeared to reject a plan to move a weapons dump from the crowded Lagos suburb where more than 1,000 people are missing, feared dead, after a series of huge explosions.

An accident at a munitions depot caused a series of large explosions sending red fireballs into the sky over Nigeria’s commercial capital.