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The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said he's courageous by the new 'challenge' set off by his 'Ghana Card north of 1,000 trades' remark. He suggested that those mocking him lack foresight and as far as he is concerned, ‘when it comes to visionaries who try to move our country to a different level, they are confronted with a mindset that only sees impossibility.” “A mindset that refuses to believe that African countries like Ghana can lead the world in the implementation of digital…

VP Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been moving on Twitter after he announced his decision of the Ghana Card over street exchanges in the nation's mission for advancement. Talking at the Accra Business School, Dr Bawumia said the public ID card is more helpful than 1,000 exchanges. “We have implemented a national identification system and today we have 16 million Ghanaians with unique identities and that is a major transformation. And sometimes a lot of people don’t even appreciate what the impact of the Ghana Card is. “But…

The National Identification Authority has said that the Ghana Card registration process is free at all Regional and District offices and nobody needs to make any payment to get the card done. The NIA Media Relations Officer Dora Badu Owusu Adoma speaking about the Ghana card said; “You don’t need to pay money to anyone at any of our district and regional offices because the registration process is free''. She mentioned that it takes only 25-30 minutes to complete the registration process for the card noting that the…

The Vice President of Ghana Dr. Bawumia has said beginning from the year 2022 all newborn babies in Ghana will be given a Ghana card number shortly after birth. The Vice President disclosed that the actual card will be issued to the child when the child is grown and the biometrics are fully formed. He made this revelation while speaking during a public lecture at Ashesi University on 2nd November 2021. Speaking on the heights attained by the Nana Addo administration since it took over from the NDC, he stated that…

The Vice President of Ghana Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that the Ghana card will soon be recognized globally as an e-passport. He noted that 179 countries will recognize Ghana card as e-passport starting from the first quarter of 2022. The Vice President noted that this feature of the Ghana card will make traveling convenient for Ghanaians in the diaspora while speaking on transforming Ghana's economy through digitization in Accra. “When this is done, Ghanaians in the diaspora would not need a visa to return…

The function of the National Health Insurance card will be transferred to the Ghana card at the end of the year which means that it will fade out to give way for the Ghana card. The National Health Insurance card is a card which almost half the population of Ghana have registered onto and it enables them to access health care freely to an extent in public health centers. Due to the pending transition the National Health Insurance Authority has strengthened its public education on the upcoming transition in order to…