The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will take place in 811 centres spread across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
This was disclosed in a statement by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, following the commission’s regular meeting held in Abuja.
To ease access and assist citizens in locating their nearest registration centres, INEC will launch a CVR Live Locator tool, which will go live on August 17, 2025, a day before the exercise begins.
According to Olumekun, the CVR process will begin in two phases.
Online pre-registration is scheduled to commence on August 18, while in-person registration will follow a week later on August 25.
“Thereafter, the two processes will continue simultaneously for a year until August 30,” he said.
Olumekun further explained that the registration exercise will be held from 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday, excluding national public holidays, in the 811 designated centres which include INEC offices in all 774 Local Government Areas, 36 States and the FCT.
“The locator will go live a day before the commencement of the CVR on Aug.17, 2025 and can be accessed at the following address https://cvr.inecnigeria.org/locator,” he noted.
To help the public, Olumekun revealed that the commission had uploaded a 38-page document listing the physical addresses of all 811 in-person registration centres.
Additionally, dedicated telephone numbers have been assigned for each state to function as help desks for any citizen requiring clarification.
“Similarly, dedicated telephone numbers have been given for each state of the federation to serve as a help desk for citizens who require further clarification,” he added.
Regarding the registration process, Olumekun confirmed that the procedures remain consistent with those used during the last CVR exercise in 2022.
“The procedure for both the online and in-person registrations remains the same as was the case in 2022. Detailed information on the process, including video clips, will once again be released by the commission next week,” he said.
In addition to voter registration, Olumekun gave an update on requests for new political party registrations.
He noted that since the July 23 update, INEC had received eight additional letters of intent from associations wishing to become registered political parties, raising the total number of requests so far to 151.
“Having created the portal for party registration, the commission has commenced the shortlisting of the associations that meet the requirements to proceed to the application stage.”
“Details will be released immediately after the 16 bye-elections in 12 states scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 16,” he stated.
He also mentioned that information on these new requests such as proposed names, acronyms, logos, addresses and interim leaderships, had already been made available on INEC’s official platforms.
Olumekun concluded by assuring Nigerians of the commission’s continued commitment to transparency and timely public engagement.
“The commission would continue to keep citizens informed on all its activities,” he said.
