Deadline For SIM Card Registration Exercise Extended – Ministry of Comunications and Digitalisation 

Citizens and eligible foreigners in Ghana were given a deadline to register their Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) by the end of March 2022.

On Tuesday, 22nd March, 2022, in a circular by the Ministry of Information and digitalisation, the SIM registration exercise which started on the 1st of October, 2021 and is expected to end on 31st March, 2021 has been extended to 31st July, 2022.

According to the Ministry, the extension was based on some statistics and a number of factors such as, 

“the fact that over 7.5 million citizens and residents are yet to obtain Ghana Cards to enable them register their SIM cards, it is clear that the deadline for completion of the registration of the remaining active SIM cards cannot be met. More time will also be required to update the SIM Registration App for the registration of diplomats, while a Self-Service SIM Registration App is also being developed to facilitate registration of SIM cards for Ghanaians resident abroad.”

The development of the Registration App is set to be in operation by mid April. 

It has been recorded that, “As at 17th March, 14,091,542 SIM Cards have been linked to the Ghana Card, 10,348,532 Bio-Captures conducted and 99,445 New SIMs registered.