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Man Kaur, a 101-year-old athlete from India, won the 100 metres sprint at the World Masters Games in Auckland on Monday, celebrating with a little dance. Ms Kaur completed the race in one minute 14 seconds and was the only athlete to compete in her age category. She has been dubbed the “miracle from Chandigarh” in New Zealand’s media. She was cleared to run after a medical examination. She started her athletic career at the age of 93 with her son, Gurdev. Source: BBC

GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE Ranger Rodrigue Katembo has been kidnapped and attacked and has suffered mock executions while protecting the Virunga National Park in the DRC An ex-child soldier who has spent years risking his life to fight illegal mining and wildlife poaching has been given a prestigious award. The Goldman prize for park ranger Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, honours “environmental defenders” worldwide. It comes as new analysis shows more environmental activists were killed in the last year than ever before. Mr Katembo is one of several winners of this year’s award. He has been tortured…

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has rung the changes again at the Ghana Police Service. In a release intercepted by www.3news.com, senior officers are expected to assume their new roles with immediate effect. Dated April 20, 2017, the release announced the transfer of the likes of the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ashanti Regional Police Command. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Yaw Nketiah-Yeboah has been moved from the Ashanti Region to Accra; precisely to the Ghana Police Hospital to assume a similar role. His place has been given to ASP Juliana Obeng, who was PRO for…

Local President of the Private Universities Association of Ghana (PUSAG) at the All Nations University College in Koforidua, Eastern Region has made a call on government to make them enjoy subventions as they also pay taxes. Addressing a gathering of the College’s management and the media to report on the performance of the College at the recent PUSAG, Ebenezer Appiah-Kubi lamented how private universities have to compete with public universities in the area of recruitment and retention of highly qualified faculty. “There is the non-ubiquitous lack of finances for expansion, research, inadequate infrastructure among others,” he noted, adding that “libraries…

A couple in the US state of Georgia have won their legal battle to give their baby daughter the surname Allah. The state had refused to issue a birth certificate for ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah on the grounds that neither parent has that last name. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case, called the decision a victory for free expression. But the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US said the surname could be considered offensive. The Georgia Department of Health had initially said the one-year-old daughter of parents Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk should have either of…

At least seven people have died after an electric cable fell on fans watching a Manchester United match on TV in Nigeria, police say. The high-tension cable fell on a crowded shack showing the Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht in the southern city of Calabar. At least 30 people were taken to hospital by local ambulances and police who arrived quickly at the scene. English football has a large and passionate following in Nigeria. Eyewitnesses describe hearing a loud explosion from an electrical transformer which caused the cable to fall. One man told local media that the venue had a…

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has denied damning Ghana’s King of Comedy DKB as a boring comedian. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in an interview with Christian Agyei Frimpong of Onua FM’s entertainment talk show Anigye Mmre on Friday, April  21 stated that she doesn’t even know who DKB is. “What I can say is that anytime we are having a comedy show, the comedian needs to sit and think over the jokes they want to share with the audience from the beginning of the show all the Gh[ana] comedians who performed the night used vulgar language throughout their performance. “Ghana…

Pressure is being mounted on the national executive of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) to step aside for an Interim Management Committee (IMC). Election of new officers initially scheduled for March 31 has been indefinitely postponed due to numerous petitions against the process. The Election and Arbitration Committee recommended the postponement of the polls. The current executive body headed by Dr Roland Affail Monney has had to apparently extend its mandate. Nonetheless, there have been numerous calls for the executives to make way for an IMC until elections are held. The latest to add to the pressure is Francis Kokutse,…

Some parts of the country’s capital city Accra were flooded on Thursday night after a downpour which lasted for almost an hour. www.3news.com gathers the Olusegun Obasanjo Highway was flooded with most road users unable to ply the stretch. Mallam Junction on the Accra-Cape Coast highway was also flooded though the road was slightly motorable. Portions of the Atomic Junction overhead on the Legon-Madina highway were also filled with water. Motorists travelling to Haatso/Dome found it difficult to ply the road as it was flooded. April marks the beginning of the rainy season in Ghana and meteorologists have predicted heavier…