Nigeria, May 14 -- The Jigawa State governor, Muhammad Badaru, on Wednesday, warned that the state could record up to 20,000 cases of COVID-19 as the disease keeps spreading across the state.

"In the meantime, you will agree with me that COVID-19 infection is now with us in Jigawa as the disease has spread to eight out of 27 Local Government Areas of the state," the governor said.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday announced 184 new infections across the country with Jigawa having 23 new cases, second after Lagos, Nigeria's epicentre.

According to the statistics provided by the public health agency, among infected states in Nigeria, Jigawa ranks seventh, with a total of 141 confirmed cases.

Mr Badaru, in a pres...