The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that over 4.45 million Nigerians have pre-registered online in the first month of the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.

Leading the registration are Osun, Lagos, and Borno states, according to the document released by the commission on Monday.

The 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 registrations.

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.

While over 4.4 million Nigerians have begun the process online, Olumekun clarified that only 509,929 registrations have been fully completed.
He said this is combining both online pre-registration and in-person capture.

Of this number, he disclosed that 280,171 are female and 229,758 are male.

Olumekun revealed that online voter pre-registration in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) would end on Monday, 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 our official platforms”, he added.