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The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has revealed how he played a role in the arrest and conviction of his nephew, George Kwame Essien, an Assistant Technical Enrollment Officer at NIA’s Walewale Office. In a Facebook post, Professor Attafuah detailed the events leading …

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced plans for Ghanaians to access credit and purchase cars using the Ghana Card and the ongoing digitalization of the economy. Speaking at the 57th Congregation of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on November 24, he revealed ongoing discussions with …

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will on Monday, December 19, begin premium services for the Ghana Card registration exercise at three of its regional offices. These are the Ashanti, Eastern, and Western Regions. This will be in addition to the NIA Head Office and Calbanlk Head Office in Accra. “The …

The executive secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has declared that there is no justifiable reason why the Ghana Card cannot be used for the presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2024. He also argues that it will be a tragedy if Ghana does not use …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has called on the National Identification Authority (NIA) to accelerate the issuing of Ghana Cards to enable prospective voters to register to vote. The call follows the Commission’s decision not to use the guarantor system in the 2024 voters registration exercise.   According to the EC, …

Ghanaians have been asked to brace themselves for more fisticuffs in parliament in the coming days over a Constitutional Instrument that seeks to give power to the Electoral Commission to accept only the Ghana Card as a source document for voter registration. According to member of parliament for Bongo Constituency, …

The Head of Financial Stability at the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Joseph France has announced that commencing July 1, all persons who have failed to link their Ghana cards to their bank accounts will be unable to withdraw funds from their bank accounts.   According to him, unlinked accounts will …

International Relations Expert, Kwame Agyenim has said that the Ghana Card is only good for identification so he does not believe it can ever be used as a passport for travels. According to him, the claims made by the vice president, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia on the Ghana card becoming a …