{"id":71860,"date":"2025-08-01T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71860"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:43:02","slug":"inec-sets-august-18-for-launch-of-online-voter-pre-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/01\/inec-sets-august-18-for-launch-of-online-voter-pre-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Sets August 18 for Launch of Online Voter Pre-Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially announced that its nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will begin with online pre-registration on August 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

This announcement was made by INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, during a visit by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) leadership to the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. He revealed that the in-person registration phase will follow shortly, beginning on August 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe online pre-registration process is scheduled to commence on the 18th of August, while physical registration at designated centers will kick off a week later, on the 25th,\u201d Professor Yakubu said.<\/p>\n

According to INEC, this CVR phase is a core part of its strategic preparation not only for the upcoming Anambra State governorship election scheduled for November 8, 2025, but also for the nationwide polls in 2027.<\/p>\n

The meeting between INEC and the NOA was also used to reaffirm both agencies\u2019 mutual commitment to strengthening voter education and public awareness campaigns especially through innovative means, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

Professor Yakubu emphasized that the collaboration with NOA is essential to ensure effective civic engagement and outreach at the grassroots. \u201cOur constitutional responsibility to conduct elections cannot be fulfilled without sustained public sensitization, and the NOA remains a central partner in that effort,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He went on to commend NOA’s nationwide infrastructure and its evolving digital engagement tools, such as NOA TV, NOA Radio, and the AI-powered civic chatbot \u201cCLHEEAN,\u201d which he said are revolutionizing citizen-government communication.<\/p>\n

INEC also acknowledged NOA’s expanded role in the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, citing its importance in improving voter mobilization, especially among women, youth, and persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n

NOA\u2019s Director-General, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, spoke about the agency\u2019s transformation journey, noting that it has broadened its operational capacity by increasing the number of departments from 12 to 16, including a new Department of Civic Values and Democracy Education.<\/p>\n

He outlined a revitalized communication strategy anchored on traditional and digital tools, enhanced by AI-based feedback systems, weekly publications, and an extensive network of over 800 local offices nationwide.<\/p>\n

The renewed collaboration between INEC and NOA signals a robust nationwide engagement strategy ahead of one of the most anticipated electoral cycles in Nigeria’s democratic history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially announced that its nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will begin with online pre-registration on August 18, 2025. This announcement was made by INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, during a visit by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) leadership to the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71862,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71860\/revisions\/71862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}