Youth unemployment is a ticking bomb, lecturer warns

Ghana risks a national crisis unless immediate and decisive action is taken to curb rising youth unemployment, labour expert and senior lecturer Dr Aaron Kumah warns. The latest Ghana Statistical Service report found that nearly two million Ghanaians aged 15 to 35 were not employed and were not participating in education or training in the third quarter of 2025. Young women accounted for more than 60 per cent of the affected group. Kumah described the figures as a wake-up call.