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WWW.DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH 14 DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2018 Any man who doesn’t know Jesus lacks real love — Majid As May 25 marked the Africa Day - a day set aside by the African Union (AU) to commemorate the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union - organisers of the AU Arts Festival, an event that seeks to use arts as a tool for African development, will hold its maiden edition of the event at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra today. According to organisers, since this year’s Africa Day was celebrated on the theme: ‘Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation’, our leaders should be relentless in the fight against corruption. In a release copied to the DAILY HERITAGE, the planning committee of the festival stated that “As we celebrate African Unity, we have to remember the sacrifices of our forebears and work together to find solutions to the myriad of problems confronting our continent” “The vision of our forefathers was ensuring that the continent will grow to have one strong voice, politically, economically and socially but these have eluded us because of bad governance and corruption. As we are all aware, the bane of Africa's development is corruption. As we commemorate the sacrifices of our forebears, let us be mindful of the threat of corruption to our development.” The committee further noted that as Africans, we • Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor Maiden AU Arts Festival comes off today can only achieve economic freedom and improve the livelihood of our people if resources earmarked for projects were put to use without any diversion. “We want to also commend bodies such as the ECOWAS, and the United Nations for the roles they have played in working to stall conflicts, which has improved the stability rate in Africa. We say ayekoo!!” they said. Touching on today's event, the committee said beginning this year, the AU Arts Foundation will use the creative arts to empower the youth for accelerated development. They say they believe that arts and culture are appropriate mechanisms to integrate our youth in all facets of our national development. About AU Arts Festival The maiden AU Arts Festival comes off from Friday, June 1, to Sunday, June 3, 2018, at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra. The event is happening on the theme, ‘Leadership; Africa through arts, celebrating President John Agyekum Kufour, 2nd President of the 4th Republic.’ The festival, organized by Malaika Media Network, OK Communications and the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, would be used to raise funds in support of the Kufour Centre for Leadership and Governance. GHANAIAN ACTOR, Majid Michel, has cautioned women on the type of men they choose to date or marry. In a recent post on Instagram, the award-winning actor said men who do not know Jesus Christ lack real love, and thus would not have good relationship with their women. “Ladies, hear this, if a man is not following God he’s not fit to lead. If he doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus, he won’t know how to have a relationship with you. If he doesn’t know Jesus, he doesn’t know real love,” he wrote. According to Citi News, the ‘Crime to Christ’ actor few years ago announced his calling by God and how he had changed from certain things he used to do in the past. He has been preaching on social media and some religious platforms even though he has refused to be referred to as a man of God. Majid has, therefore, said he now serves God but not man. “Am I now trying to win the favour and approval of men or that of God, or am I seeking to please someone? If I were still trying to be popular with men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ,” he once wrote on his Instagram page. He is one of the founders of Actors, Presenters, Professionals and Musicians for Christ (APPMC), which also includes colleague actors Timothy Bentum and Pascal Amanfo. They have been seen on the I underwent anal surgery for fistula — President of Nigeria actors guild PRESIDENT OF Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Emeka Rollas, has addressed speculations suggesting he is gay following his anal surgeries. There were rumours after the AGN president underwent two anal surgeries outside Nigeria that he was practising homosexuality. However, in an interview with Daily Post, Rollas stated that he enjoys having sex with his wife who has seven children for him. He explained that he had anal surgery after detection of ‘anal fistula’ and had to be operated on in India. Rollas said, “Let me address the sexuality issues I heard some time ago. The ignorance level of some people caused this as some of them failed to check up the name of my ailment. “First of all, I had anal fistula which is a skin problem that can happen to any parts of your body and needs to be cut off through surgery. “I had the first anal surgery in 2012 after I suffered from haemorrhoid, and someone told me to take herbs to cure it which later made it worse and made me fly to India for surgery. “But four years later, I had a relapse but this time I chose to go to America to have the second surgery. Most people talking about me • Majid Michel, actor streets and at church programmes preaching the gospel and delivering people of evil spirits and problems. did not know what happened because when they heard about anal surgery, they started questioning if I was gay. On why he did not address the public on the issue, Rollas said, “I did not address the issue of my sexuality earlier because it would have run into a case of Daddy Freeze and the Pentecostal church. “For crying out loud, I have seven kids with my wife.Iif I can have sex with my wife and have children, why would I be looking the other way. “Some of these things come and as a celebrity if you keep responding to such rumours, you are wasting your time.” Dailypost.ng • Emeka Rollas
DAILYHERITAGE.COM.GH Sports DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2018 15 17-year-old fencer knocks on Ghana’s door BY SPORTS DESK MARTA OKINE, a 17- year-old fencer, is the latest sports talent who wishes to represent Ghana at the next Olympic Games in 2020. Now seventh best in Europe in the Cadets Division, Marta, who was born in Poland, wants to switch nationality to represent Ghana in the lesserknown sport in Ghana. Rated as one of the stars of the future, she has taken up the challenge to be rated among the best in the world, and her parents are putting in every effort for her to don the colours of Ghana. According to her father, since 2016 they have been discussing with Ghana Fencing official about his daughter to represent Ghana in fencing. He said they contacted the president of Ghana Fencing, and are still planning to meet before she went to last year’s World championship in Germany According to Mr Wojtek Okine, “My daugther now is in Polish Federation and she was 7th last year in European championship cadets, while their team got bronze medal in the same tournament and now she is a regular in the national team”. Zidane steps down as Real Madrid coach ZINEDINE ZIDANE says he is stepping down as Real Madrid boss, five days after leading them to a third straight Champions League triumph, claiming the club needs "a different voice". Zidane told a news conference that "everything changes" and "that's why I took this decision". He leaves having guided the Spanish club to three successive Champions League titles and one La Liga success since taking over in January 2016. "I love this club," he added. "What I think is that this team needs to continue winning but I think it needs a change, a different voice, another methodology. And that's why I took this decision." Zidane, 45, took over after Rafael Benitez was sacked and was in charge for 149 games. He steered Real to 104 wins and 29 draws, had 69.8% win rate, and won nine trophies. He said in February that he would walk away if he felt "there is nothing more to give". However, the timing of his announcement still came as a shock just days after Real beat Liverpool 3-1 in the Champions League final. "It's a strange moment to do so, I know, but an important one too," he added on Thursday. "I had to do this for everyone." Real are looking for their fourth manager in five years. Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has been linked with Real in the past. The Argentine signed a new five-year contract at Spurs last week. Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri could also come into the frame, while Arsene Wenger wants to carry on in management after leaving Arsenal after 22 years in charge. Italian Maurizio Sarri, most recently of Napoli, is also available. The decision on who will next manage Real will be made by club president Florentino Perez. He accompanied Zidane at the news conference and said he wanted to keep the France 1998 World Cup winner. "This was a totally unexpected decision. Zidane informed me of his choice yesterday," added Perez. Zindane's exit comes after Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo revealed they were contemplating their futures at the club. — BBC Footballers to entice scouts at maiden ‘Youthage Cup’ BY ANNETTE S. YEBOAH FOOTBALLERS AROUND and within the Greater Accra and the Central regions will be given the opportunity to woo football agents and scouts from Europe with their skills and talents at a three-day juvenile football cup at Ofada Town Park at Bawjiase from [today] Friday, June 1, 2018 to Sunday, June 3, 2018. The competition, dubbed ‘Youthage Cup’- 2018, is organised by a sports firm based in Accra, Youthage Strategic Organisation, is the maiden edition and according to management, they have planned to make it an annual affair. The Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Mr Cobby Jonah, told the DAILY HERITAGE in Accra on Wednesday that the objective of the competition is to bring competitiveness into the juvenile football in the country. According to him, there are no competition at the juvenile level and nothing much was happening, so studying the situation, he and his management decided to put up such a competition for both the players and teams to have some competitiveness. “The competition is there to give them the hope and zeal for something big in the future. Having the competitiveness natures at the juvenile level will help bring out the best in them,” he said. Mr Jonah stated that the competition is strictly for team and players or footballers under the age 13 and 16 respectively. He said both the under-13 and the under-16 age categories have • Mr Cobby Jonah, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation eight teams each that would be put into two groups in a round-robin encounters before the semi-finals. He continued that two teams from each of the group will qualify to play in the semi-finals through to the finale on Sunday, where the winner will lift the trophy and a certificate.
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