{
  "id": 12382541,
  "title": "2027: Middle-aged voters dominate Nigeria’s 103m voter register – INEC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/2027-middle-aged-voters-dominate-nigerias-103m-voter-register-inec",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T13:12:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Premium Times",
    "slug": "premium-times",
    "url": "https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/914925-2027-middle-aged-voters-dominate-nigerias-103m-voter-register-inec.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the country's voter register has grown to 103 million registered voters. This follows a three-phase Continuous Voter Registration exercise conducted between August 2025 and July 2026.\n\nAccording to INEC Chairman Prof Joash Amupitan, Lagos State has the highest number of registered voters, with 7,488,633 voters, as reported by Daily Post Nigeria. However, Punch Nigeria provides slightly different numbers for the top three states: Lagos with 7,488,633 registered voters, Kano with 6,570,276, and Kaduna with 4,662,640.\n\nThe states with the lowest number of registered voters are Ekiti with 1,055,708, Bayelsa with 1,000,200,691, the FCT with 1,000,732,43, Yobe with 1,733,641, and Gombe with 1,768,566, as per Daily Post Nigeria.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "title": "2027: INEC lists states with highest registered voters",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/2027-inec-lists-states-with-highest-registered-voters",
        "published": "2026-10-06T11:05:55.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Post Nigeria",
        "title": "BREAKING: 2027: INEC reveals top 10 states by number of registered voters",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/breaking-2027-inec-reveals-top-10-states-by-number-of-registered",
        "published": "2026-10-06T11:10:06.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Trust",
        "title": "2027: Lagos, Kano dominate voters’ register – INEC",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/2027-lagos-kano-dominate-voters-register-inec",
        "published": "2026-10-06T13:27:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}