COVID-19: Nigeria Registers 1 Death, 86 New Infections Sunday

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered one death and 86 new additional infections from across seven states on Sunday.

The NCDC disclosed this in its daily COVID-19 report on Monday morning .

The  86 additional cases reported on Friday indicated a decrease from the 116 cases reported in the country the previous day.

The Nigerian public health institute stated that the fatality toll now stood at 2,906, while a total of 212,713 infections have been confirmed in across the country.

According to it, 204,379 COVID-19 patients have recovered and have been discharged in the country.

It said that the 86 new cases were reported from seven states, including Kaduna (41), Lagos (24), Osun (10), Bauchi (6), Ekiti (2), Ondo (2), and Edo (1).

The NCDC said that the country currently had 5,428 active coronavirus cases, while a total of 3,340,313 blood samples have been tested since the pandemic began across the country.

It added that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) activated at Level 2, has continued to coordinate the national response activities.

An Iyaganku Family Court sitting in Ibadan, on Monday, ordered the remand of one Lukumon Azeez, 35, for alleged defilement of a 12-year-old.

Azeez, of  Alubiagba Compound, Ayetoro-Oke, in Oyo State,  is charged on one count of defilement.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr S. H . Adebisi, who did not take the plea of the defendant due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he should be kept at Abolongo correctional facility in Oyo Town.

Adebisi ordered that the defendant should be  remanded pending advice of Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

He adjourned the case until Nov. 29 for mention.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Gbemisola Adedeji, told the court that Azeez, on Oct. 25,  at 7.30 p.m., at Ayetoro-Oke, unlawfully had sexual intercourse  with the minor  in the neighborhood.

“The victim was running  an errand within the neighborhood; she was asked to go and  buy onions when the defendant waylaid her on the way and defiled her beside a gutter.

“The victim called for help, but the defendant put his five fingers in her mouth in order to prevent her from  shouting; some people in the area came to her rescue and apprehended the defendant,” Adedeji said.

According to Adedeji, the alleged offence contravenes Section 34 of the state’s Child Rights  Law of  2006.