The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says more than 4.4 million Nigerians have registered online in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, with women slightly outnumbering men in participation.
In a statement on Monday, National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed that 4,445,505 citizens had completed online registration as of September 14, 2025. Out of this figure, 509,929 have successfully finalized the process by completing both online pre-registration and in-person verification.
The data shows that women accounted for 51.83 percent of online registrations, while men represented 48.17 percent. Young Nigerians between 18 and 34 years dominated the exercise, making up 65.79 percent of registrants, while students alone constituted 25.02 percent.
For completed registrations, youths again led the figures with 74.15 percent, and students represented the largest occupational group at 38.54 percent.
Olumekun noted that registration in Anambra State has been suspended until after the November 11 governorship election, while online pre-registration in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been paused to allow ward-level registration ahead of the February 2026 Area Council elections.
He added that a comprehensive breakdown of registration figures by state, gender, age, occupation, and disability has been published on INEC’s official platforms for public access.“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,” Olumekun said.“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.”The CVR exercise is part of INEC’s preparations ahead of the 2027 general elections, with officials urging Nigerians to take advantage of the opportunity to register and update their voter records.
