{"id":2743,"date":"2026-03-02T10:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:33:12","slug":"ghana-to-begin-nationwide-sim-re-registration-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to Begin Nationwide SIM Re-Registration Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div id=\"ultimate-heading-50956a09e5f531666\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-50956a09e5f531666 uvc-7578  uvc-heading-default-font-sizes\" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-50956a09e5f531666 h5'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h5 style=\"--font-weight:theme;\">Ghana to Begin Nationwide SIM Re-Registration Exercise<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-50956a09e5f531666 .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;\">The Government of Ghana has announced plans to commence a new nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise aimed at strengthening national security, reducing telecom fraud, and improving data integrity across mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, the upcoming exercise will introduce live biometric verification against the National Identification Authority (NIA) database, alongside flexible self-service options to minimize queues and inconvenience to citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The government also intends to lay a Legislative Instrument (LI) before Parliament to provide a clear legal framework, ensure data protection, and address challenges encountered in previous SIM registration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise will be implemented by the National Communications Authority (NCA) in collaboration with telecom operators nationwide.<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","pmpro-has-access","category-3","description-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/simReg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}