Nigeria recorded 1,940 new cases of COVID-19 in 18 states and the FCT on Thursday.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, made this known on Friday morning.
Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 4,000.
The NCDC said no deaths were reported for Thursday.
The centre said Lagos reported 845, while the FCT recorded 734 cases.
For the FCT, the centre said, the number included backlog of cases for Wednesday.
Others are Oyo-120; Rivers-69; Delta-30; Kaduna-29; Edo-21; Plateau-20; Gombe-14; Anambra-11; Enugu-11; Osun-10; Ekiti-8; Kano-5; Bayelsa-4; Ogun-4; Katsina-3; Bauchi-1; Jigawa-1.
These latest figures, the centre said brought the total number of confirmed cases to 233,353 with 212,040 discharged and 2,991 COVID-related deaths.
The centre said nine people had died since the detection of the Omicron variant in the country after testing positive for COVID-19.
The Omicron variant comes amid a race to get booster jabs into arms as quickly as possible, with an early study by Imperial College London having suggested that a third vaccine dose could offer around 85 per cent protection against severe illness with Omicron.
The NCDC said 3,751,696 people had been tested since the virus was announced on February 27, 2020.
Two preliminary studies published on Wednesday by Imperial and the University of Edinburgh, found that those infected with the Omicron variant were 40 to 70 per cent less likely to be admitted to hospital than with Delta.
Experts said it remained unclear whether Omicron was innately less virulent than its predecessors or merely appears so because of the high levels of immunity in the population.
Health officials warned that a reduction in severity could be cancelled out by the “alarming” rate at which Omicron is spreading.
The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has appealed to Nigerians to imbibe the culture of citizen’s responsibility and observe safety measures to reduce community transmission of COVID- 19 during the festive period.
