Nana Akua Amoatemaa-Appiah (born 19 July 1971) is a British television presenter, currently working for GB News.
Akua was born on 19 July 1971 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, her family moved to the United States when she was 11 years old.
Akua studied business and finance at university.
During her career, Akua has worked for various radio stations including Kiss 100, Capital Radio, the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital radio station and BBC Three Counties Radio.
On television, Akua worked as a presenter for Bid-Up.TV and Price Drop, 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, as well as being a contributor to a Panorama programme dealing with mortgage scammers.
She later worked as a continuity announcer for the BBC.
She formerly presented Tonight Live with Nana Akua on GB News and said that GB News was "striking a chord" with the British public when speaking to Sky News Australia.
When reporting the October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict a number of pro-Hamas terrorist group messages were read out on air by Nana Akua.
GB News apologised for the broadcast and confirmed that counter terrorism police were reviewing the footage.
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, 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.
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.
