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Ghana Card: NIA Begins Premium Services At Its Ashanti, Eastern And Western Regional Offices Today

Ghana Card: NIA Begins Premium Services At Its Ashanti, Eastern And Western Regional Offices Today

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 National Identification Authority (NIA) announces for the information of the general public that effective Monday, 19th December 2022, it will offer premium registration services at its Ashanti, Eastern, and Western Regional offices. “These centres will operate in addition to the premium centres at the NIA Head Office and Calbanlk Head…
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NIA Assures Ghana Card Will Be Available To All – EC

NIA Assures Ghana Card Will Be Available To All – EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it has been assured by the National Identification Authority (NIA) that the Ghana Card will be made accessible to all before the commission begins its continuous voter registration, early next year. The commission in a Constitutional Instrument (C.I) laid before Parliament has proposed the use of the Ghana Card as the sole identification document for the upcoming registration exercise. This decision by the EC has brought to the fore concerns by some stakeholders in the electoral process that making the Ghana Card the only form of identification for the registration exercise would lead to the…
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15.8m People Have Ghana Cards — NIA

15.8m People Have Ghana Cards — NIA

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has so far issued 15,826,148 Ghana cards out of the 16,627,325 printed cards from 17,109,627 registrations as of the end of August this year. Some 1,283,479 cards remain uncollected, for various reasons, including some needing updates, people unable to locate their collection points, while others are also not showing up to collect them because they “feel they have no need for them now”. Addressing a press conference in Accra last Friday, the Executive Secretary of the NIA, Professor Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, said while his outfit admitted that there were some challenges with the issuance of…
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