{"id":175023,"date":"2025-08-19T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:56:13","slug":"majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Early CVR Registrants Are Young Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says young Nigerians are leading the way in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).<\/p>\n<p>INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed that within just seven hours of resuming the nationwide online registration on Monday, 69,376 Nigerians had completed pre-registration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the total registrants, 48,033 are aged 18 to 34, representing 69.2 percent of early applicants,\u201d Olumekun said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 33,803 applicants (48.7 percent) were male, while 35,573 (51.3 percent) were female.<\/p>\n<p>Olumekun emphasized that the online portal remains accessible 24\/7 and in-person registration will start on Monday, August 25, at 811 state and local government offices nationwide, operating from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that registration is only open to Nigerian citizens aged 18 and above who are not already registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that double registration is unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>He added that transfers between states and card replacements would also be accommodated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says young Nigerians are leading the way in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed that within just seven hours of resuming the nationwide online registration on Monday, 69,376 Nigerians had completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7400,251,254,18475],"class_list":["post-175023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-cvr","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-young-nigerians"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Majority of Early CVR Registrants Are Young Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says young Nigerians are leading the way in the ongoing Continuous ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Majority of Early CVR Registrants Are Young Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says young Nigerians are leading the way in the ongoing Continuous ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T07:52:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T08:56:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755581329.664743.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Majority of Early CVR Registrants Are Young Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T07:52:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-19T08:56:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755581329.664743.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CVR\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\",\"young Nigerians\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/majority-of-early-cvr-registrants-are-young-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Majority of Early CVR Registrants Are Young Nigerians - 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