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Photographic records of the daily variations of the magnetic elements H, D and Z were taken at 10 stations across the magnetic zero dip equator in Nigeria around the June solstice (May to July) 1962. A preliminary analysis of these records locates the axis of the equatorial electrojet on the magnetic equator (10.2°N latitude in Nigeria), and there the average daily range of Z was practically zero. On the model of a uniform current band at a height of 110 km the equatorial electrojet in this season was found to have a width of (406±20) km and a current intensity of 116 amp km−1. These values are compared with other existing values they show clearly that both the width and the intensity of the electrojet have decreased with decrease in solar activity.