_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: Jafarunsuleiman@gmail.com; Asian Journal of Research in Zoology 1(1): 1-6, 2018; Article no.AJRIZ.45050 Molluscicidal Potential of Column Purified Fractions of Allium cepa against Intermediate Host of Urinary Schistosomiasis (Bulinus globosus) in Sokoto, Nigeria J. Suleiman 1* , K. Singh 2 , A. Y. Bala 2 , M. T. Muhammad 1 and M. S. Yakubu 3 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, Nigeria. 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. 3 Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa, Nigeria. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author JS designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors KS and AYB managed the literature searches, while authors MTM and MSY managed the analysis of the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJRIZ/2018/v1i129666 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Ram Pratap Yadav, Department of Zoology, DDU, Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (U.P), India. (2) Dr. Celso Vladimiro Ferreira de Abreu Cunha, Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology Unit, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal. Reviewers: (1) Damilare O. Famakinde, University of Lagos, Nigeria. (2) Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu, University Health Services, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria. (3) Claudia Irene Menghi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/27163 Received 17 th October 2018 Accepted 5 th November 2018 Published 12 th November 2018 ABSTRACT Potential of column purified fractions of Allium cepa bulb against intermediate hosts of urinary schistosomiasis (Bulinus globosus) was conducted in laboratory condition. The fresh bulbs of A. cepa were purchased from Ramin Kura market of Sokoto, identified and authenticated by a taxonomist. The bulbs were sliced into pieces, air dried and powdered. Extracts were obtained using methanol as polar then purified with silica gel as a stationary phase while N-hexane and ethyl acetate (1:1) as the mobile phase. Thirteen fractions each fraction containing 10 ml of the effluent was collected, the collected extracts were left open for evaporation for 48 hours. Ten adult B. globosus were immersed in 3liters of water containing different concentrations of the fraction and each treatment was replicated three times with control in the same condition without treatment, Original Research Article