By EMMANUEL OLONIRUHA

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has recorded a total of 7,415,760 online pre-registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) with Borno taking the lead with 783,546 registrants.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission released the data in its regular update on the exercise.

NAN reports that the exercise began on Aug. 18 nationwide.

The update also revealed that as at Oct. 12, a total of 1,502,733 Nigerians have successfully completed both online and physical Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) within the seventh week of the exercise.

For the online pre-registrations, out of the 7,415,760 total registration 3,877,330 representing 52.28 per cent were female, 3,538,430 representing 47.72 per cent were male.

Of the total online pre-registrants 5,095,056 were youths between the age of 18 and 34; while 1,873,848 were students and 168,680 were Persons With Disabilities (PWDs).

In terms of state by state registration, while Borno is leading with 783,546, followed by Osun with 632,751, Lagos with 590,341, Kebbi with 557,778, and Kaduna with 471,375 registrants.

For the completed registration for week seven from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10, the update revealed that from the 1,502,733 registrants, 878,715 completed their registration form pre-online and 674,018 were from physical registration.

The data also shows that form the completed registration female account for 828,563 registrants representing 55.14 per cent, while male account for 674,170 representing 44.86 per cent of the completed registration.

In terms of occupation, students accounted for 507,097, representing 33.74 per cent, followed by business owners with 279,384 at 18.59 per cent and house wives at 223,903 representing 14.90 per cent.

The statistics also show that 21,244 PWDs, constituting 1.41 per cent of the total, were successfully registered during the week.

Also for the week seven indicates that Lagos State recorded the highest number of completed registrations with 78,128, followed by Kano State with 82,703, and Oyo with 43,165.

INEC reminded the public that all forms of registration, both online pre-registration and physical, remain suspended in Anambra until after the Governorship Election scheduled for Nov. 8. (NAN)

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