Ghana Card: Nationwide registration for children under 15 to begin in September
Published:
3 months ago
Source:
GhanaWeb
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced plans to begin nationwide Ghana Card registration for children aged 6 to 14 starting in September. This move comes after the successful registration of 18 million Ghanaians aged 15 and above. Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, shared that the registration process for younger Ghanaians has already been successfully piloted in the Eastern and Central regions. The authority is now prepared to expand the initiative across the entire country, ensuring that all citizens, regardless of age, are included in the national identification system.
"We have started looking at Ghanaians aged between 6 and 14 years because the mass registration and the continuous registration captured Ghanaians 15 years and above," Prof.