“…Wide-ranging varieties of plant species, representing 57 plants families possess nematicidal compounds (Sukul, 1992;Ntallie et.al., 2011). Consequently, promising number of plants/plant parts have been screened for nematicidal activities globally (Nour El-Deen & Darwish, 2011;Nour El-Deen, Omaima & Abdel-Kafie, 2013). Unfortunately, very few of such plants had been reported to suppress plant parasitic nematodes in Nigeria (Adekunle and Fawole, 2003;Fawole, 2005;Adegbite and Adesiyan, 2005;Imafidor and Nzeakwo 2020).…”