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The Miss America group is seeking the help of former pageant winners and directors, after a scandal over vulgar emails disparaging contestants. In the emails, published by the Huffington Post, pageant officials made degrading remarks about past winners’ appearance, intellect, and sex lives. Executive director Sam Haskell, president Josh Randle, and other board members resigned over the scandal. Now the group is reaching out to former Miss Americas to help find new leaders. Dan Meyers, the interim board chairman, said the group wanted former winners to recommend members for a search committee that would determine the group’s future leadership structure.…

Multiple award-winning songstress Mzbel has thrown her weight behind fellow female artiste Ebony Reigns in the face of public criticism over the latter’s appearance on stage. The composer of new hit Maame Hw3 has come under criticism for her dressing on stage. While those against her think her grooming is not fit to represent the cause of women, those on her side say she is in a business which requires her to attract attention however that comes. Mzbel, who was also a subject of female artistes’ dressing some years ago, says the Di Me Dwa hitmaker should be allowed to…

Member of Parliament for Takoradi Constituency Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah joined masqueraders on the streets of Takoradi as part of the Christmas festivities. The Deputy Minister of Aviation was dressed as one of the masqueraders and danced, much to the excitement of his constituents. Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

The four juveniles arrested over the gang-raping of a teenager in a widely circulated video have been remanded in juvenile cells. They are expected to re-appear in court on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. The four were picked up by the police after a search was mounted when the video went viral and stirred public outrage. A jury of four was constituted last Wednesday to begin hearing the case. At the second hearing in court on Wednesday, the prosecutor prayed for more time to gather evidence from ongoing investigations. Our correspondent, Ibrahim Abubakar, reported that relatives of the suspects trooped to…

Media General’s Wendy Laryea, a popular face on TV3, was at the Al-Banat Preparatory School in Maamobi, a suburb of Accra, last week to talk to school girls about menstrual hygiene. An ambassador of UNICEF’s Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM), Wendy Laryea delivered the talk as part of a campaign to get girls sanitary pads. The programme was under the auspices of the Young Women Leaders’ Achievers Network (YWLAN) founded by Hajar Diko Osman with Wendy Laryea speaking as the Founder of Inspire To Rise. The programme was on the topic ‘Share a Sanitary Pad with a girl Child’. It was…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, has clarified recent claims by some Liberian refugees that they are no longer protected by the agency. Describing the claims as “erroneous”, UNHCR said the majority of refugees ceased from being recognized as such in 2012. “With the cessation of their refugee status five years ago, except the 350 Liberians exempted from the cessation and still considered refugees, UNHCR does not consider as persons of concern or in need of international protection the former Liberian refugees who did not opt for either a voluntary repatriation to their country…

Former US President Barack Obama has warned against the irresponsible use of social media, in a rare interview since stepping down in January. He warned that such actions were distorting people’s understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation. “All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet,” he said. Mr Obama was quizzed by Prince Harry on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Prince Harry, fifth in line to the throne, is one of several prominent figures who are guest-editing the programme over the Christmas period. Obama on the extremes…

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has reversed his international retirement with Ivory Coast. The 34-year-old quit international football in September 2016 with more than 100 caps and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations title to his name. “I love my country and I am free for the national selection,” he said on Twitter. “I want to help the next generation and use all my experience so that all Ivorians are proud!” Toure, who joined Manchester City from Barcelona in 2010, has played just three Premier League games this season. His agent Dimitry Seluk tweeted: “Yaya Toure has decided to return…

The police officer alleged to have shot and killed a student and injured another in the Western Region Friday night will make his first court appearance on Wednesday, December 27. Corporal Adjei Shaibu of the Inchaban Police Station is reported to have shot at five students at Nyankrom in the Shama District of the Region, killing Lawrence Joe Baidoo, 18, instantly. One other person, Kwabena Dukpor, 22, who sustained “gunshot wounds”, is currently on admission at the St. Benedict Hospital at Inchaban. Kwabena Dukpor had mentioned Corporal Shaibu as the one who shot at them. But the police officer denies…

A Peruvian football official accused of taking bribes has been cleared by a jury in the US. Manuel Burga, who led football in Peru until 2014, was accused of taking cash in exchange for distributing marketing and media rights to matches. Two other South American football officials were convicted by the same jury on Friday. During the trial, Mr Burga denied he threatened a key witness by making a throat-slashing gesture. After leaving the court in New York, Mr Burga said: “God bless America!” Mr Burga was charged along with Jose Maria Marin, the former head of Brazil’s Football Confederation…