{"id":73506,"date":"2025-08-18T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73506"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:22:24","slug":"inec-portal-records-26000-visits-as-voter-registration-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/18\/inec-portal-records-26000-visits-as-voter-registration-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Portal Records 26,000+ Visits as Voter Registration Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), portal has recorded more than 26,000 visits just hours after going live on Monday, August 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As of 12:35 p.m. on Monday, INEC announced via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle that the platform, www.cvr.inecnigeria.org, had received 26,255 hits.<\/p>\n<p>The commission urged citizens to take advantage of the exercise, stressing the importance of timely voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>While online pre-registration is currently active, physical registration at INEC\u2019s 37 state offices and 774 local government offices nationwide will commence on August 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This hybrid approach, the commission noted, is designed to make the process more accessible to eligible voters.<\/p>\n<p>The CVR targets Nigerians who have turned 18 and never registered, as well as those needing to update their information, transfer polling units, or replace lost or damaged Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).<\/p>\n<p>INEC cautioned against multiple registrations, warning that offenders risk legal sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>It also provided a dedicated call center line 0700-CALL-INEC (0700-2255-4632) and short code 4632 for inquiries and support.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming its commitment to inclusive democracy, the commission said the exercise seeks to ensure that every eligible Nigerian can register and participate in upcoming elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), portal has recorded more than 26,000 visits just hours after going live on Monday, August 18, 2025. As of 12:35 p.m. on Monday, INEC announced via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle that the platform, www.cvr.inecnigeria.org, had received 26,255 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506","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=73506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73508,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506\/revisions\/73508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}