The National Identification Authority is moving to significantly widen access to Ghana Card services, announcing plans to establish more than ten new Prestige Registration Centres across the country — each operating around the clock, every day of the year.
The centres will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including weekends and public holidays, giving Ghanaians the flexibility to register, replace, or update their Ghana Cards at times that fit their schedules rather than being constrained by conventional working hours.
It is a practical acknowledgement of a simple reality: demand for the Ghana Card has long outpaced the capacity of existing registration infrastructure.
Long queues and overcrowded registration centres have been a recurring frustration for Ghanaians seeking identity documents — a problem that has grown more acute as the Ghana Card has become increasingly indispensable in daily life.
The document is now a prerequisite for a widening range of essential services, including bank account opening, SIM card registration, healthcare access, and passport acquisition.
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The new Prestige Centres are intended to absorb that pressure. By expanding the number of registration points and extending operating hours to cover every hour of every day, the NIA aims to reduce congestion at existing facilities and ensure that no Ghanaian is effectively locked out of identity registration simply by the limits of geography or timing.
Services at the new centres are expected to cover the full spectrum of Ghana Card-related needs — first-time registrations, card replacements, data updates, and other identification services under the national identity system.
The rollout forms part of the NIA’s wider agenda to modernise and scale Ghana’s identity infrastructure as demand continues to rise. With the Ghana Card now embedded in the country’s financial, healthcare, telecommunications, and immigration systems, the authority faces growing pressure to ensure registration services keep pace with a population that increasingly cannot function fully in formal systems without one.
Further details — including the specific locations of the new centres, their opening dates, and the precise range of services on offer — are expected to be released in the coming weeks.