The nationwide fresh registration in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 10.1 million on Monday, July 18, with about 70 percent done by youths.
This was disclosed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday.
The commission said 10,139,247 registrants had completed their registrations out of which 3,357,188 were done through online, while 6,782,059 were done via physical registration.
INEC said that the age distribution also showed that 7,195,676 of the registrants were youth of age 18 to 34; while middle aged between 35 and 49 were 2,025,258.
The elderly between aged 50 and 69 were 808,021 and the old from 70 and above were 110,292.
It said that 5,022,392 of the registrants that completed their registrations were males; while 5,116,855 were females and 75,422 were Persons With Disabilities.
The commission said it has also received a total of 26,645,124 applications for voter transfer, requests for replacement of PVCs and update of voter information record, etc.