The preliminary phytochemical analysis of the leaf extract revealed the presence of Alkaloids,
Flavonoids, Steroids, Saponins, Terpenoids and Tannins (Table 1).The results obtained from the disc diffusion
assay showed an increasing inhibitory effect on bacterial growth with increasing concentration of the extract.
The extracts showed inhibitory activity on almost all bacterial strains tested. Among all the tested organisms,
the gram negative bacterial strain, K.pneumoniae was found to be more susceptible to the plant extract with an
inhibition zone ranging from 11 mm and the gram positive strains were least susceptible with the inhibition
zone ranging from 10 mm. The antibacterial activity in terms of zone of inhibition was presented in Table 2.
The observed activity may be due to the presence of potent phytochemical constituents in the leaf extracts.