A total of 4,445,505 Nigerians have pre-registered online in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in the last four weeks.
According to INEC, the combined figures of the completed online pre-registration and the physical (in-person) registration stood at 509,929 as at last Friday.
LEADERSHIP reports that while the online pre-registration started on August 18, the in-person registration commenced on August 25, 2025.
INEC national commissioner and chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja yesterday.
Olumekun said out of the 4,445,505 online pre-registrants recorded as at Sunday, 2,304,211 (51.83%) are female while 2,141,294 (48.17%) are male.
He said in terms of age and occupation, the majority 2,924,643 (65.79%) are between the ages of 18 and 34 while 1,112,344 (25.02%) are students.
“As of Friday, 12th September 2025, the combined figures of the completed online pre-registration and the physical (in-person) registration is 509,929 out of which 229,758 (45.06%) are male and 280,171 (54.94%) are female.
“In terms of age and occupation, 378,132 (74.15%) are young people between the ages of 18 and 34 while 196,529 (38.54%) are students,”Olumekun said.
On the ward level registration in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), he said: “as earlier announced by the commission, the online voter pre-registration in the FCT ends today, Monday 15th September 2025. For the next two weeks, the physical (in-person) option will be at the designated venues.
“Thereafter, the commission will devolve the registration to all the 62 wards in the FCT from 29th September to 8th October 2025. Detailed addresses of the centres have already been uploaded to our official platforms.”
