{"id":73468,"date":"2025-08-18T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73468"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:08:41","slug":"inec-begins-nationwide-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/18\/inec-begins-nationwide-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Begins Nationwide Voter Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has commenced a nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), exercise ahead of the forthcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, online pre-registration began today, August 18, 2025, via its portal, www.cvr.inecnigeria.org, while physical registration will kick off on August 25 at all 37 state offices and 774 local government area offices across the country to ensure wider access.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise covers new voters aged 18 and above, as well as those seeking to transfer, replace, or collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).<\/p>\n<p>INEC warned against multiple registrations, stressing that offenders will be penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming its commitment to strengthening democracy, the commission urged eligible Nigerians to take part in the exercise, describing voter registration as key to inclusive governance.<\/p>\n<p>For further inquiries, citizens are advised to contact the INEC call center via 0700-CALL-INEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has commenced a nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), exercise ahead of the forthcoming elections. According to the commission, online pre-registration began today, August 18, 2025, via its portal, www.cvr.inecnigeria.org, while physical registration will kick off on August 25 at all 37 state offices and 774 local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inec","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73468","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73470,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73468\/revisions\/73470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}