The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 216 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, as confirmed cases are now 54,463.

The NCDC made this known via its verified Twitter handle @NCDCgov on Wednesday.

 

“On the 1st of September 2020, 239 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

“Till date, 54247 cases have been confirmed, 42010 cases have been discharged and 1023 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

“The 239 new cases are reported from 15 states- Plateau (116), FCT (33), Lagos (19), Ekiti (12), Kaduna (11), Ogun (11), Ebonyi (8), Benue (7), Abia (5), Delta (5), Ondo (4), Edo (3), Imo (2), Osun (2), Bauchi (1),” the NCDC said.

See the breakdown of cases by state below;

Confirmed Cases by State

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths

Lagos 18,177 2,744 15,231 202

FCT 5,213 3,590 1,553 70

Oyo 3,136 1,145 1,954 37

Plateau 2,708 1,119 1,559 30

Edo 2,590 144 2,336 110

Rivers 2,168 108 2,003 57

Kaduna 2,163 108 2,043 12

Delta 1,752 109 1,595 48

Kano 1,727 92 1,581 54

Ogun 1,669 108 1,523 38

Ondo 1,543 131 1,380 32

Enugu 1,179 70 1,088 21

Ebonyi 1,005 37 931 37

Kwara 966 157 784 25

Abia 798 78 712 8

Katsina 796 315 457 24

Osun 788 30 737 21

Borno 741 34 671 36

Gombe 723 64 636 23

Bauchi 669 22 633 14

Imo 529 313 205 11

Benue 460 160 291 9

Nasarawa 434 124 298 12

Bayelsa 391 12 348 31

Jigawa 322 3 308 11

Akwa Ibom 280 34 232 14

Ekiti 278 54 219 5

Niger 243 15 216 12

Adamawa 228 33 180 15

Anambra 216 30 168 18

Sokoto 159 1 140 18

Kebbi 93 3 82 8

Taraba 87 9 73 5

Cross River 82 1 73 8

Zamfara 78 0 73 5

Yobe 67 0 59 8

Kogi 5 0 3 2

216 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Plateau-59

Rivers-27

Abia-22

Lagos-20

Oyo-18

Enugu-17

Kaduna-11

FCT-11

Ogun-10

Ebonyi-4

Osun-4

Ekiti-4

Delta-3

Edo-3

Akwa Ibom-2

Bauchi-1

54,463 confirmed

42,439 discharged

1,027 deaths pic.twitter.com/vUSBtDjZWA

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) September 2, 2020

Rumour has it that our President Mohammed Buhari died since 2017 and there is an imposter currently on his seat. We do not know if this is true. We really don't want to even think so. But there are evidence which people has been discovering, which are making Nigerians doubt the current status of our president.

The article above comes from a blog stating that on February 13, 2020, the AU (African Union) assembled to to observe a minute silence for President Buhari and also honour him.

If you search it out on google, you get this below. As you can see, the person searched " 23rd of February 2017, who did AU observe a minute silence for "

His daughter zahra Buhari even posted something baffling on December 2019. She said the one person who was supposed to be in the picture but isn't would have had the biggest smile- my baba. In the picture, you can see her baba there who is President Buhari or is that an imposter.

Moving further, Nigerians claims the person on the presidential seat is not President Buhari but a man by the name Jibril Aminu Al Sudani. A lot of evidence were brought to show that the man parading as Buhari is not actually Buhari.

One is the difference in their ears and eyebrows as seen in the pictures below.

Another one is the difference in the hands they write with. During his first tenure, Buhari was an acclaimed left-handed person. A lot of pictures were taken to prove this. then, suddenly he switches to being right handed. See the picture below.

There is even a viral picture of President Buhari (presumably) on his dying bed.

Eric joyce even posted a lot about his death

A death certificate is even going around

Aisha Buhari made a statement about the president not being her husband

Of course, all these could have been made up. This is not the first time Nigerians are formulating news to suit them. Pls note that we are not in any way saying the president is dead. There is no official statement concerning that. We are just writing on what is viral and what people are saying.