The Board of Graphic Communications Group Ltd. (GCGL), has appointed Suleiman Mustapha as the Editor of Graphic Business, the company’s flagship weekly business newspaper.
Mr Mustapha, who has been acting in the position since April 2025, is expected to lead the newspaper’s editorial direction and strengthen its coverage of business, finance and economic reporting.
He will also play the role of Business Editor of the Daily Graphic, where he will oversee business reporting and content across the print and digital platforms.
Profile
Mr Mustapha is a business journalist and communications professional with more than two decades of experience in journalism, editorial leadership, business reporting and strategic communications.
Before his appointment, he led the Graphic Business as acting editor while coordinating business reporting teams across the GCGL.
He joined the GCGL in 2008, and had since held a number of editorial and reporting positions, building a career focused largely on business and economic affairs.
Before joining GCGL, he worked with The Statesman and the Business and Financial Times (BFT).
His career includes work in business and financial journalism, investigative reporting, corporate communications and business advocacy.
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 professional training in business and financial journalism, including a certificate programme with 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.
He was a recipient of the Technology Media Excellence Awards in April 2025, for his work in covering technology and business transformation.
In 2017, Mr Mustapha was adjudged Business, Finance and Economic Journalist of the Year by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), an award recognising his work in business and economic journalism.
He is currently 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).
At Graphic Business, he is expected to carry the newspaper’s mandate in business and economic reporting aloft while deepening analytical coverage and strengthening its relevance to policymakers, businesses, investors and the wider public.