Muslims throughout the country are today celebrating Eid ul-Adha, a festival of sacrifice.

President Barack Obama has cast his vote in his hometown of Chicago as his campaign seeks to boost early ballots in a neck-and-neck election race.

Ghana's former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings and Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have sent a message of goodwill to Muslims on the occasion of the Eid ul Adha festival.

THE FORMER Vice President of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs and Omanhene of Yeji, Penampem Yaw Kagbrese II, has been elected as the new President of the House to lead the house for the next four years.

A GROUP of people from Yeji in the Pru district of the Brong Ahafo region have petitioned government to remove the stumps in the Volta Lake which have been the cause of many tragic accidents.

OKO AMPENTENG, a 34-year-old tipper truck driver last Tuesday crushed two pupils of Ammet Academy at Ashaiman Lebanon Zone 2 to death, causing harm to two other pupils when they attempted to cross a road after school hours.

PRESIDENT JOHN Dramani Mahama has nominated Justices A. A. Benneh and J. B. Akamba for parliamentary approval and appointment to the Supreme Court.

The Northern Regional Police Command has picked early warning signals indicating that minors voting during the December 7 general election will likely spark conflict.

THREE LAWYERS were yesterday at an Accra Circuit court to request bail for four persons standing trial for allegedly having a hand in the exportation of 1545 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa (Wee) and 7.5killogrammes of cocaine from Ghana to United Kingdom.

Mr Enoch Teye- Mensah, Minister for Water Resources, Working and Housing said Ghana has gone beyond the era of abandoning good projects started by previous governments merely because it was started by its predecessor.

A youth group calling itself the concerned youth of Binduri has called on the President to appoint a District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area.

Mr. Cezar Kale, the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has said the threat to peace in the country is the impending presidential and parliamentary elections.

Mr Kwaah Abdul Rahaman, Progressive PeopleÂ’s Party (PPP) parliamentary candidate for Nkoranza North, has promised to tackle deplorable roads in the rural farming communities when elected.

One Kwabena Mensah has appeared before a Cape Coast MagistrateÂ’s Court for allegedly killing Madam Aba Botwewaa, his 100-year old Grandmother.

Six hundred and forty-three (643) deceased voters were deleted from the Biometric Voters Register in the Brong-Ahafo Region during the 10-day biometric voters exhibition exercise which ended barely two months ago.

President John Dramani Mahama, has urged Ghanaians to show commitment to peace by their words and actions during and after the December 7, 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.