{"id":1209219,"date":"2022-09-22T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/empress-gifty-installed-as-chief\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:50:52","slug":"empress-gifty-installed-as-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/empress-gifty-installed-as-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Empress Gifty installed as chief\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Gospel musician\u00a0Empress Gifty\u00a0has been installed chief of the Igbo community in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The musician will now serve with the stool name Chief Ugonma Empress Gifty.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/307607278_1289089608533344_1155370911995114125_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"Empress Gifty installed as chief\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-2164042 lazy\" title=\"Empress Gifty installed as chief\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Photo credit: Empress Gifty\u2019s Instagram page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The King of the Igbo community in Ghana, His Royal Majesty,\u00a0Eze (Dr)\u00a0AMB Chukwudi J.\u00a0Ihenetu and his people bestowed the honour on the singer on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was also to commemorate a decade of Dr Chukwudi\u2019s reign as king of the community.<\/p>\n<p>This was in a colourful ceremony of rich Nigerian culture with her husband, Hopeson Adorye and scores of well-wishers in attendance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/307433770_660284608619504_2432832826318765353_n-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Empress Gifty installed as chief\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-2164041 lazy\" title=\"Empress Gifty installed as chief\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Mr and Mrs Adorye (Credit: Empress Gifty\u2019s Instagram page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Empress Gifty, following the coronation, expressed gratitude to the King and the people of the Igbo Community in Ghana and pledged commitment to work for the growth of the African continent at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am more than thrilled to be part of history as the Igbo Community in Ghana marks its 10th anniversary on the throne today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis honour by extension would\u00a0deepen the cultural and economic ties between Ghana and Nigeria. For this reason,\u00a0 I would avail myself for this cause,\u00a0 because we stand to gain a lot by working together as Africans,\u201d she acknowledged.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CiqfryUDbmf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/empress-gifty-installed-as-chief\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel musician\u00a0Empress Gifty\u00a0has been installed chief of the Igbo community in Ghana. The musician will now serve with the stool name Chief Ugonma Empress Gifty. Photo credit: Empress Gifty\u2019s Instagram page The King of the Igbo community in Ghana, His Royal Majesty,\u00a0Eze (Dr)\u00a0AMB Chukwudi J.\u00a0Ihenetu and his people bestowed the honour on the singer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[231,3403,7974,6623],"class_list":["post-1209219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chief","tag-empress","tag-gifty","tag-installed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}