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CVR: 6.6 million Nigerians registered as persons with disabilities number hit 31,517

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With the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration,CVR, about 6.6 million Nigerians have been listed on voters register, while about 31,517 Persons with Disabilities have been registered as well.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC disclosed this part of its commitment to keep Nigerians updated with the exercise being an update on Quarter three, week nine of the CVR.

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The update revealed that as at 7am on Monday, March 7, the new batch of registration reached exactly 6,615,192 million.

Also that 3,707,233 registrants completed their registration of which 1,539,618 were through online and 2,167,615 were physical.

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INEC disclosed that out of the persons that completed their registration, 1,863,963 were male, 1,843,270 were female, and 31,517 were Persons With Disabilities.

The number of youths from age 18 to 34 who registered were 2,569,852, the report showed.

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INEC received 11,346,365 applications for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voters Cards, and update of voter information records.

According to the update, the applications were received from 6,051,318 male and 5,295,047 female. Out of them, 108,706 were People With Disabilities across all categories.

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