The National Identification Authority (NIA) has completed building its verification platform, to enable all financial institutions to accept the Ghana Card for transactions. Already Calbank, Stanbic and UBA have started accepting the Ghana Card as a form of verification for banking transactions. This follows the successful onboarding of the three banks’ verification systems to the […]
The National Health Insurance Scheme card will be phased out at the end of the year, with the function to be transferred to the Ghana Card. Nearly half of the Ghanaian population have registered onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), enabling them to access healthcare services in public facilities and some private outfits. In […]
The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said Ghanaians and foreigners who do not have the Ghana Card cannot re-register their SIM cards beginning October 2021. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Accra on Sunday, she said the exercise is mandatory for all citizens and non-citizens living in Ghana. Owusu-Ekuful announced that […]
About 14 million people have been identified as eligible taxpayers after a successful integration of the Ghana Card and Tax Identification Numbers (TINs), an exercise which started on April 1, this year. The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, who made this known, said out of the number, only six million […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it has achieved 84.44 percent (15,581,283) of its enrolment target as of June 28, 2021. That, it said exceeded its target of 80 percent of the population aged 15 years and above. The Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof Ken Attafuah said this at the meet the press series […]
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has deployed systems that allow members of the scheme to merge their SSNIT and NIA numbers (Personal ID Numbers on their Ghana Cards). The merger will provide convenience and comfort for members as they will only use one card, the Ghana Card, for all transactions with the Trust. […]
From Monday, June 28, this year, all Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contributors will replace their unique scheme identification numbers with the Ghana Card identification numbers. The process of merging the two identification numbers will continue until December 31, this year. This means that from January 1, next year, SSNIT contributors will no […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) is set to distribute some 3,875,441 printed Ghana Cards to applicants across all 16 regions of the country from 8th through to 16th of June 2020. A state issued by the Authority and sighted by BestNewsGH.com read in part that ‘’This nationwide card issuance blitz will enable 11,062,850 Ghanaians to […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Identification Authority (NIA) will soon resume their registration exercises following the lifting of the ban on public and social gatherings by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Nana Akufo-Addo in an address on Sunday urged such bodies to adhere to safety protocols during their activities. “…Statutory bodies such […]
The National Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Sammi Awuku has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying they have no right to blame anyone for the predicament in which they find themselves, with regards to the compilation of a new voters register. The NPP National Organiser says […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has refuted claims that the Authority has unlawfully issued Ghana cards to some foreign nationals, specifically to a Chinese national. This follows a video circulating on social media suggesting that the possession of a Ghana card by a Chinese was unlawful. In a statement issued and signed by Mr Francis […]
Information reaching BestNewsGH.com indicates that an Accra High Court a while ago threw out a suit seeking to place an injunction on the Ghana Card registration following the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The court according to BestNewsGH.com sources, also dismissed the substantive case. Government through the Attorney-General has been at the forefront of fighting […]
