Ghanaian gospel musician Gifty Oppong Adorye, known in showbiz as Empress Gifty, has sued Evangelist Patricia Asiedu (Nana Agradaa) of Heavens Way Church for making defamatory statements about her.

In a writ of summons sighted by myjoyonline.com, Empress Gifty is demanding 20 million cedis from the traditional priest-turned-pastor in damages.

According to the writ, the Plaintiff (Empress Gifty) says that on 13th May 2025 the Defendant (Nana Agradaa) who seems to have a disagreement with the Plaintiff's husband (Hopeson Adorye) took to her social media handles (Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube) and in a live broadcast and attacked the Plaintiff's husband.

The writ further indicates that “in their natural and ordinary meaning, the words complained of were understood to mean that:

a) The Plaintiff is promiscuous and a prostitute.
b) The Plaintiff is a zoophile who flirts with dogs to earn her money to cater for her husband.
c) The Plaintiff is an adulterous or an unchaste wife who has extramarital affairs with other men, and most of her paramours are pastors.
d) Pastors who invite the Plaintiff to their programs have sexual intercourse with her in their offices before the Plaintiff mounts the pulpit to sing.
e) The Plaintiff is an imbecile.

Empress Gifty (the Plaintiff) also avers that the live broadcast made by the Defendant afforded other social media bloggers the opportunity to take the feed to their followers contemporaneously.”

The ‘Watch Me’ singer says the defamatory words spoken and published by the Nana Agradaa of her, is on the internet worldwide, and being widely circulated on various news portals and social media platforms in which the Plaintiff continue to be on the receiving end of severe and disdainful backlash.

She further indicates that the widespread effect of the Defendant's words on the Plaintiff is that she has become the subject of discussion on media outlets locally and internationally, and has affected her children, who are taunted and ridiculed by their mates in school.

The lawyers say as a result of Nana Agradaa’s actions, the credit and reputation of Empress Gifty, both personal and public, have been seriously damaged and have brought shame into public ridicule, scandal, odium and contempt.

They also highlight that the Plaintiff, who is a brand ambassador to numerous companies, as indicated, has suffered collateral damage. Consequently, Empress’s lawyers aver that her international programme slated for August 2025 has been affected due to the words uttered by Nana Agradaa about her.

As a result of this, Empress Gifty is claiming against the defendant the sum of Twenty Million Ghana Cedis (GHS20,000,000.00) for damages for slander and libel of the Plaintiff by the Defendant.

She is also requesting an order of perpetual injunction to restrain the Defendant, her servants, agents, privies, assigns, howsoever, from publication of such words or any of them or similar words to that effect.

The gospel singer also wants an order for the Defendant to pull down all the videos, audios in which she spoke the words defamatory of the Plaintiff from all her social media handles.