The second phase of the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has commenced.
The exercise resumed on Monday, following the completion of the first phase on December 10, 2025. INEC had earlier opened online pre-registration on August 18, 2025, before commencing physical registration at centres nationwide on August 25, 2025.
INEC explained that the interval between the two phases was used to carry out statutory activities, including the display of the voters’ register for public scrutiny.
The commission said: “In line with Section 19 of the Electoral Act 2022, the voters’ register was displayed for claims and objections from December 15 to 21, 2025, at local government offices where the CVR was conducted.
It explained that 9,891,801 Nigerians began the online pre-registration during the first phase.
However, as of November 28, 2025, only 2,572,054 people had completed their registration nationwide. The figure comprises 1,503,832 online registrations and 1,068,222 registrations conducted physically at registration centres.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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