JUST IN: Nigeria's COVID-19 cases rise above over 1000

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control - NCDC has announced 114 new cases of #COVID19 on Friday night.

This takes the country's cases record of more than 1000 infections despite almost four weeks of lockdown in the majorly affected cities.

The death toll has also risen to 32 and 208 persons have been discharged, according to the NCDC.

The NCDC made the announcement on its official Twitter account and the breakdown of the new cases per state stands at 80 in Lagos, 21 in Gombe, 5 in FCT, 2 in Zamfara, 2 in Edo, n Ogun, 1 in Oyo
1 in Kaduna, and 1 in Sokoto.

"As at 11:30 pm 24th April, there are 1095 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.

"As at 11:30 pm 24th April: Lagos has a total of 657 cases, FCT-138, Kano-73, Ogun-35, Gombe-30, Katsina-21, Osun-20, Edo-19, Oyo-18, Borno-12, Kwara-11, Akwa Ibom-11, Kaduna-10, Bauchi-8, Delta-6, Ekiti-4, Ondo-3, Rivers-3, Jigawa-2, Enugu-2, Niger-2, Abia-2, Zamfara-2, Sokoto-2, Benue-1, Anambra-1, Adamawa-1, and Plateau-1.

"As at 24th April, Nigeria has recorded #COVID19 confirmed cases in 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

"In the last 24 hours, the number of new cases increased by 114. The number of deaths increased by 1.

"5 cases previously recorded in Lagos, are now recorded as Ogun state cases," the NCDC tweeted.