The programme was launched on June 28, 2021.
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The commission raised the alarm in a statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that update provided by INEC on Wednesday in Abuja indicated that out of 120,600 Nigerians who had completed their physical registration, 72,075 were male, while 48,525 were female.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the commission’s emergency meeting with security agencies under the auspices of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security.
Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, disclosed this during the stakeholders’ meeting on expansion of voter access to polling units on Thursday in Gombe.
Yakubu at the expiration of his first tenure on November 9 handed over the affairs of the commission to National Commissioner, Ahmed Mu’azu, while awaiting senate confirmation for second tenure.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has urged members of the public to ignore social media report alleging that it has given another opportunity for Continuous Voter Registration before the 2019 general elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that 265,432 Permanent Voter0 Cards had yet to be claimed in Delta.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday denied claims that female Muslims in hijab were denied registration at the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration in Lagos and other South West states.
The Independent National Electoral Commission said it has registered 13,013,989 new voters from its nationwide Continuous Voter Registration between April 2017 and August 20 2018.
The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, on Thursday lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission for extending the Continuous Voter Registration exercise to August 31 in response to the demand of Nigerians.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced the inclusion of weekends and public holidays as word days of its personnel in ongoing Continuous Voter Registration.
The Chairman of the INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said at the commission’s quarterly consultative meeting with security agencies under the auspices of Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security in Abuja that the over 10 million new voters people were registered between April 2017, when the CVR commenced, and end of June 2018
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the commission’s quarterly consultative meeting with security agencies under the auspices of Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security on Friday in Abuja.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Alhaji Ahmadu Makama, disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday in Damaturu, saying the figure was likely to go up as the CVR progressed.
The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. James Apam, who announced this during a press conference in Lokoja on Wednesday, blamed the development on persistent violent clashes within the affected communities.
Adebisi urged those that had yet to register to use the holiday period to do so, and those that had registered to also use the period to collect their Permanent Voters’ Card.
The Deputy Controller of Immigration in charge of Border Management, Bappa Idris, disclosed this on Friday at a stakeholder meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Yola.
The commission in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Solomon Soyebi, a National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, said the exercise would be suspended to due to a change in electoral law
He said the two work-free days that the government declared during the Continuous Voter Registration enabled civil servants to register for the election.