| Birth Name: | Nana Akua Amoatemaa-Appiah |
| Birth Date: | 19 July 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Known For: | GB News |
Nana Akua Amoatemaa-Appiah (born 19 July 1971) is a British television presenter and journalist, currently working for GB News.[1]
Akua was born on 19 July 1971 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.[2] The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, she and her family moved to the United States when she was 11 years old.[3] Akua studied business and finance at university.[3]
During her career, Akua has worked for various radio stations including Kiss 100, Capital Radio, the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital radio station[3] and BBC Three Counties Radio.[4]
On television, Akua worked as a presenter for Bid-Up.TV and Price Drop,[3] later working for the BBC on Look East and Holiday. She also appeared as a panellist on Good Morning Britain on ITV and Jeremy Vine on Channel 5,[5] as well as being a contributor to a Panorama programme dealing with mortgage scammers. She later worked as a continuity announcer for the BBC.[6] [3]
She formerly presented Tonight Live with Nana Akua on GB News[7] and said that GB News was "striking a chord" with the British public when speaking to Sky News Australia.[8]
In December 2023, Akua was awarded a Commonwealth Business Award in recognition for her contribution in the media and was nominated for a Charles Gordon Trust Award for Best Presenter.[9]
Akua worked with the Department of Health and Social Care to encourage black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to be vaccinated against COVID-19,[5] and called GB News co-host Darren McCaffrey a "hypocrite" live on-air for opposing compulsory vaccinations against COVID-19 for staff in care homes.[10]
Akua has criticised "taking the knee" against racism as an example of virtue signalling. Akua has linked it to Black Lives Matter (BLM), which she calls a "far-left Marxist pressure group and political organisation" and has supported England football fans who did not agree with the gesture of taking the knee, but said that booing is bad manners.[11]
Akua supports the death penalty.[12]
On the Jeremy Vine show on 15 October 2021, Akua claimed that letting refugees drown when crossing the Channel would “stop people trafficking”