General News of Friday, 19 December 2025Source: classfmonline.comThe Minister of Youth Development and Employment, George Opare Addo, has cautioned that the growing rate of joblessness among young people has serious implications for national security and requires urgent, joint efforts to resolve. His remarks follow the release of recent statistics by the Ghana Statistical Service indicating that over 1.3 million young people were neither employed nor engaged in education or skills training as of the third quarter of 2025. Speaking in an interview on Thursday, December 18, 2025, the minister described the current situation as deeply worrying, noting that youth unemployment should be a shared concern for citizens and policymakers alike. “The scale of unemployment we are seeing is frightening. It presents a significant risk to national security, and everyone must take the issue seriously,” Opare Addo stated, while noting that government interventions are underway to drastically bring down the figures.

Source: GhanaWeb December 19, 2025 16:01 UTC