Today's front pages

GHANA RISKS RECORDING EBOLA BY OCTOBER 31 ACCORDING TO RESEARCH; BUT DUNCAN WILLAMS SAYS PRAYERS CAN STOP EBOLA

Ghana tops the list of countries at risk of recording an Ebola outbreak a research has revealed. However the Founder of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop Nicholas Duncnan-Willams says it Ghanaian commit to God and prayer, an Ebola outbreak can be averte.

GOVERNMENT INSTALLS EQUIPMENT AT KIA TO SCREEN FOR EBOLA

Two computers with thermal imaging cameras have been installed at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) as part of measures by the government to beef up surveillance to prevent any possible outbreak of the Ebola viral disease in the country.

WE WANT OUR SECOND-TIER PENSIONS DEDUCTIONS  - POTAG

Members of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) are up in arms against the government  for failing to release their second tier pension deductions for investment.

TAMALE FANS SHOW SUPPORT FOR STARS
The proverbial Tamale hospitality was extended to the Black Stars by hundreds of soccer fans who thronged the Tamale Airport yesterday to welcome the team to the city.

TOR FEELS DISARMED
The arrangement by government for the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to supply the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) with petroleum products has ruffled feathers at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), with workers calling for a reversal of the decision.

EBOLA CRISIS DOMINATES IMF/WORLD BANK MEETINGS
Containing the Ebola contagion that has ravaged mostly three West African countries -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Libera -- was high on the agenda of the just-ended IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC.

US$1 TRILLION ILLICIT OUTFLOWS DRAIN POOR COUNTRIES

Developing countries  are reported to be losing close to $1 trillion in illicit financial outflows annually, a situation President of the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), Raymond Baker has described as the biggest implement to sustainable development.

INFLATION WIPES GH¢92 BILLION OFF INVESTMENTS OVER A 10-YEAR PERIOD

A whopping GH¢92.68 billion is the value of money lost in investments in financial instruments in financial instruments due to the effects of inflation between 2003 and 2013, virtually the size of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which stood at GH¢93.46 billion at the close of 2013, a new research by Cambridge Capital Advisors Limited, a SEC-licensed and regulated investment banking firm, has pointed out.

BoG TO TRACK REMITTANCES
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is strategising on means to conduct a survey to capture remittances sent through other means other than the banking sector.

FOREX DEALERS, BUSINESSES LOSE HEAVILY AS CEDI RECOVERS

Forex dealers and individual hoarders of foreign currencies have complained of losing huge amounts of Ghana cedis from wrongly anticipating a further fall in the cedi's value against major trading currencies during the local currency's free fall which peaked to about GH¢3.80 to US$1 at the end of August this year.

PROBE REPUBLIC BANK - HFC TELLS SEC
HFC Bank says it has reason to believe that Yellow Tide Limited and Republic Bank Limited are actively cooperating to consolidate control of HFC Bank through the acquisition of shares in the bank.