[1][4] After completing the school of journalism, Mohammed Awal joined the Graphic Communications Group Limited first as a reporter and later page editor.

[5] He resigned in 2010 to take up the position of managing director of Chase Petroleum — a downstream oil marketing company.

[3][4][6] At the time of his appointment, Mohammed Awal was the CEO of Marble Communication Group Limited, a private publishing house in Ghana.

[3][7] On 12 January 2017, Mohammed Awal was nominated by President Akuffo-Addo for the position of Minister for Business Development.

[14][15] In May 2017, he made it known that it was his ministry's plan encourage the private sector to grow the economy and triple annual gross domestic product to 200 billion cedis by 2020.