Tag: NIA

The government has issued a sweeping directive prohibiting all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) and Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) from operating or developing any independent biometric systems, as ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has strongly denied claims circulating on social media suggesting that the validity period of the Ghana Card will be reduced from ten years. The Authority ...

The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) is intensifying efforts to eliminate ghost names from the government payroll through the deployment of biometric verification tools. Controller and Accountant-General Kwasi Agyei announced ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) is racing to resolve internal tensions after employees announced an indefinite strike over unpaid allowances, potentially jeopardizing key national services linked to identity verification. Workers ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) Division of the Public Services Workers' Union (PSWU) has officially declared an indefinite strike beginning Tuesday, June 24, 2025, over the government’s failure to resume ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has affirmed the integrity, reliability, and technological soundness of Ghana’s national digital identification system, citing the low impersonation rates, real-time deactivation protocols, and biometric-only verification ...

The leadership of the National Identification Authority (NIA) has met with the management of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to discuss strategies for enhancing their collaborative initiative to register ...

The reopening of district offices is expected to bring relief to both applicants and the NIA.

This comes after careful observation by the authority revealed a need to address key identity verification challenges facing companies, individuals, and the country as a whole.

Mussa Dankwah, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, has raised serious concerns about the financial and operational missteps that have crippled the Ghana Card verification system. According to him, a project ...