The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that over 4.45 million Nigerians have pre-registered online in the first month of the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
According to a document released by the Commission yesterday, Osun, Lagos, and Borno states are leading in the registration exercise, which commenced on August 18, 2025, has now entered its fifth week.
INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement, said the figure recorded at the end of week four stood at 4,445,505 .
The breakdown shows that women constitute 51.83 per cent of registrants, while men account for 48.17 per cent. Young people, between 18 and 34 years, make up the majority with 2,924,643.
By occupation, students represent the single largest bloc with 1,112,344. Osun State led the register with 552,045, followed closely by Lagos with 488,523 and Borno with 439,426.
Other top-performing states include Ogun (396,799), Kebbi (287,059), Kaduna (240,357), Kogi (218,397), Federal Capital Territory (213,732) and Yobe (212,840).
At the lower end, Adamawa (12,474), Enugu (1,839), Edo (8,615), Abia (3,532), and Ebonyi (4,024) posted some of the weakest numbers. Olumekun clarified that while over 4.4 million Nigerians had begun the process online, only 509,929 registrations have been fully completed. He said this is combining both online pre-registration and in-person capture, adding that of this number, 280,171 are female and 229,758 are male. Olumekun revealed that online voter pre-registration in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was expected to end yesterday, September 15, 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 September 29 to October 8, 2025. Detailed addresses of the centres have already been uploaded to the official platforms,” he added.
