Gruesome images show emergency workers carrying the remains of the victims in black bags after the women, riding motorised rickshaws, detonated their explosives.
Both attacks were carried out in the early morning in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
The first came outside the Bakassi refugee camp where the explosion killed five men.
Eyewitness Inuwe Sula, who lives nearby, said he saw six bodies evacuated and several wounded survivors 'drenched with blood.'
Within just 30 minutes a second bombing occurred outside a gas station about a kilometre away. Again the attacker was reportedly trying to enter the camp, estimated to house 16,000 displaced people.
A bomber in a rickshaw tricycle taxi followed a fuel tanker before detonating the vehicle 'with the sole aim of gaining entry to cause maximum damage and casualty,' said military spokesman Col. Mustapha Anka in a statement.
Nine bodies were recovered from the blasts, including those of the suicide bombers.
'Two suicide bombers riding in motorised rickshaws this morning detonated their explosives 10 minutes apart, with one of them targeting the Bakassi IDP camp on the outskirts of the city,' Mohammed Kanar, spokesman for Nigeria Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said.
The key suspects, Boko Haram have stepped up their offensive after a months-long lull following an internal leadership struggle.
Maiduguri is at the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency from the Islamist militants, and the recent attack bore all the hallmarks of Boko Haram despite no claim from them of responsibility as yet.
A bomb blast on October 12 killed eight refugees in a taxi-van just outside of the city.
The terror group has devastated northeast Nigeria massacring at least 20,000 people as it tries to create an Islamist state. Some 2.6million people have also been displaced from their homes.
'Nigeria is facing the worst humanitarian crisis on the African continent,' Peter Lundberg, acting United Nations Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, warned last week.
Daily Mail Uk
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