Suleiman Mustapha appointed editor of Graphic Business

Suleiman Mustapha, newly appointed as Editor of Graphic Business

The Board of Graphic Communications Group Ltd. (GCGL) has appointed Suleiman Mustapha as Editor of Graphic Business, the company’s flagship weekly business newspaper.

Mr Mustapha, who has served as acting editor since April 2025, will be responsible for providing editorial leadership and strengthening the newspaper’s coverage of business, finance and economic affairs.

He will also serve as Business Editor of the Daily Graphic, overseeing business reporting and content across the newspaper’s print and digital platforms.

Profile

Mr Mustapha is a business journalist and communications professional with more than two decades of experience spanning journalism, editorial leadership, business reporting and strategic communications.

He joined GCGL in 2008 and has since held various editorial and reporting positions, building a career largely focused on business and economic affairs.

Prior to joining GCGL, he worked with The Statesman and the Business and Financial Times (BFT).

His professional experience includes business and financial journalism, investigative reporting, corporate communications and business advocacy.

Mr Mustapha holds an MSc in Local Economic and Regional Development from the Institute of Local Government Studies, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and a Diploma in Journalism from the same institution.

He has also undertaken several professional training programmes in business and financial journalism, including a certificate programme organised by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in South Africa in 2009 and economic and financial journalism training with the World Bank Institute in Tanzania in 2006.

In 2010, he participated in the Danida Fellowship Programme on Social Partnership for Business Development at Aarhus Tech in Denmark.

Mr Mustapha was a recipient of the Technology Media Excellence Awards in April 2025 for his work in technology and business transformation reporting.

In 2017, he was adjudged Business, Finance and Economic Journalist of the Year by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in recognition of his contribution to business and economic journalism.

He currently serves as the National Organising Secretary of the GJA and President of Journalists for Business Advocacy (JBA). He is also a member of the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ).

In his new role at Graphic Business, Mr Mustapha is expected to advance the newspaper’s mandate of providing quality business and economic reporting, while deepening analytical coverage and strengthening its relevance to policymakers, businesses, investors and the wider public.

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