2027: INEC announces extension of Continuous Voter Registration

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has extended the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, workout by 2 weeks and launched a caller online self-service registration level for first-time voters.

This is contained successful a connection by the Commission on Friday.

The CVR, which began connected 18th August 2025 and primitively scheduled to extremity on Friday, 10th July 2026, volition present tally until Friday, 24th July 2026.

According to the statement, the hold followed a reappraisal of the workout and feedback from INEC authorities offices, governmental parties, civilian nine organisations, and different stakeholders.

The committee stated that the further clip is aimed astatine giving much eligible Nigerians who are yet to registry a just accidental to beryllium included successful the Register of Voters up of aboriginal elections.

On the caller self-service online registration, INEC volition from Wednesday, 8th July 2026 introduce a afloat online self-service registration enactment for eligible first-time voters.

The service, it said volition beryllium accessible via the Commission’s dedicated portal: cvr.inecnigeria.org.

According to INEC, the caller strategy volition let eligible citizens to implicit their elector registration including biometric capture  utilizing their idiosyncratic devices from anywhere, without visiting an INEC office.