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The Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation has announced that Ghanaians living abroad can use their passports to complete the SIM card registration process. This follows the extension of the deadline for SIM card re-registrations to September 30, 2022. The postponement of the deadline is to enable mobile telephone subscribers to complete the re-registration process. Briefing the press on July 31, 2022, the Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful announced that Ghanaians in the diaspora can use their passports to register their SIMs. “Non-resident Ghanaians who do not have the Ghana card can use their passports to complete the process but will be required to update their details with the Ghana card once they acquire it. They have up to Decem...

Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, on Friday told Parliament in Accra that the introduction of the Common Platform (CP) has paid off. She explained that it helped the government to detect GHC ¢470 million of the country’s taxes, which was lost from the period of 2015 to the first quarter of 2017. “Also, an estimated GHC 300 million in taxes was saved between the first quarter of 2017 to date as a result of the announcement of the implementation on March 8, 2017 and its actual implementation to date,” she added. In response to a question by Mr Sam Nartey George, MP for Prampram, in Parliament, the Minister, who is also the MP for Ablekuma West, said there would have been a loss of of GHC 1.5 billion through to the end of the CP contract, had the CP not been implemented....

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Non-resident Ghanaians can use passport to register their SIM cards – Communications Minister

Implementation of CP platform pays off- Communications Minister