The Government of Ghana has reportedly announced a nationwide sim re registration.
During a keynote address at the 2026 Data Protection Commission Conference, the Minister for Communication, Innovations, and Digital Technologies, Samuel Nartey George made the announcement.
According to him, “The failure in the last SIM card registration has left us with a difficult but necessary decision. After extensive cabinet deliberation, we are announcing the beginning of the process for a new SIM card registration exercise across the whole country”.
Sam George believes that “This exercise will be the first in our history to have live verification against the NIA’s database and provide biometric verification for every registration. Let me state this up front. The upcoming SIM card registration exercise will prioritize customers’ comfort. We are putting in place measures, working with the Chamber of Telecoms, to avoid long queues, including self-service portals and a seamless process for completing the registration”.
The minister noted that you won’t have the queues. You won’t have the deadlines that were unreachable in the experience. We are going to make sure that the citizen is placed at the front of this registration”, concluding that “The regulator, the National Communications Authority is engaging stakeholders on the rollout. The Data Protection Commission must be central to ensuring that even as biometric data is collected and processed, it is done with the principal consideration of protecting the customer. Trust must be elevated above all other considerations”.
