Biography of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan

Born to a Nigerian father and Ukrainian mother, Akpoti was educated at the University of Abuja. Before joining politics and campaigning for senate during the 2019 Kogi State gubernatorial election under the Social Democratic Party.

 she founded the Builders Hub Impact Investment Program (BHIIP). Akpoti was awarded the African Women Leadership Award by Jewel Taylor, the former vice president of the Liberia. 

Following her activism for the revival of the Ajaokuta Steel Mill, she received the presidential award from the Nigerian Society of Engineers in December 2017. She was elected a senator under the People’s Democratic Party in 2023.

Akpoti is from the Ebira tribe of Kogi State. She was born on 9 December 1979 as the second of four children. 

Her father, Jimoh Abdul Akpoti, is from Kogi and her mother, Ludmila Kravchenk, is from Chernivtsi, Ukraine. She was raised in Ihima, Okehi.

^4] Her father died in 1998.^[5] Akpoti attended the University of Abuja (2000–2004), and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws. 

She proceeded to the Nigerian Law School and was called to the Nigerian bar in 2005. In 2011, she obtained her MBA in Oil and Gas management from the University of Dundee in 2012.

Akpoti is a mother of three children.On 5 March 2022, she married Emmanuel Uduaghan in a ceremony at Ihima.