Hairudeen Mustapha is the Ghana sports betting writer for AXN Sports. He has spent more than five years writing about bookmakers and football markets for African readers, and he covers Ghana the way a Ghanaian bettor actually experiences it: a phone, an MTN Mobile Money wallet, a Ghana Premier League fixture on the betslip and a Champions League match alongside it. He also presents sport on local radio, which keeps him close to what supporters are arguing about each week.
What he writes about
Hairudeen handles the Ghana betting guides on AXN Sports, including bookmaker reviews, welcome bonus breakdowns, mobile money deposit and withdrawal explainers and odds comparison across the Ghana Premier League and the major European competitions. He tracks the Gaming Commission of Ghana licence position of every operator the site recommends, and he watches the tax and regulatory changes that move fastest, such as the repeal of the withholding tax on winnings. Boxing, the Black Stars and the Super Clash between Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak are the fixtures he returns to most.
Experience and background
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Communication from the University of Cape Coast. Before joining AXN Sports he served as regional lead at BettingTipsAfrica, where he produced more than two hundred articles on African betting markets, and he has reviewed and edited over three hundred pieces for publishers including Goal.com. That mix of writing and editing means he reads a bonus table the way a subeditor does, looking for the number that will not survive a check. Away from work he supports Manchester United and teaches school children when his schedule allows.
How he approaches a betting guide
Hairudeen works from the position that sport writing should inform rather than sell, and that a guide is only useful if the reader can verify it. He starts with the licence, then the payment rails, then the terms attached to any offer, because those three things decide whether a Ghanaian bettor gets paid without friction. Where a figure changes quickly, a bonus cap or a minimum deposit, he says so and points readers to the operator’s own terms. Where misinformation has taken hold, such as the 10% withholding tax that guides still quote long after it was scrapped, he corrects it plainly and explains what replaced it.
