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WhoGoHost Sees Increased Local Demand for Data Hosting- Obaniyi

‘Toba Obaniyi, CEO of Whogohost Limited, is a graduate of Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University. He finished in the top 5 percentile of his class in 2008.
He is a self taught web developer, server manager and online customer service specialist.
Obaniyi puts everything into what he believes and hates being second best. He has clearly experienced the impacts of being “nearly” accurate.
This is the very success story behind Whogohost as he has surrounded himself with a like-minded team that is very passionate about the business as he has been able to grow the indigenous web hosting provider from a small start up into the world class thriving enterprise and currently the largest hosting provider in Nigeria.
In this interview with peter oluka, Obaniyi shares the Company’s perspective with regards to data hosting, cybersecurity and sundry issues in the industry.
How WhoGoHost Started
WhoGoHost was actually found by Opeyemi Awoyemi, the founder of Jobberman, then as a student in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.
He was first, a web-designer, but realised that lot of people needed hosting, and it was difficult to source for international payments, so, he founded WhoGoHost.
WhoGoHost actually started as a reseller, but along the way, we realised that a lot of people would prefer to pay locally.
That was how we got the picture of growth potentials WhoGoHost can leverage in the country. We started as a startup company, however, according to statistics we are currently the largest in the country.
We have over 25,000 active domains hosted with us and growing aggressively and we manage our servers. We have a lot of SMEs hosted with us. In fact, the potentials are really great and we are not relenting on pushing the platform.
Localisation of Data Hosting
The global trends and from the technological point of view, it makes more sense that you are hosted where most of your traffics is coming from.
You will realize that a site that takes about three seconds to load, can actually load in less than a second.
What that also implies is that you don’t need so fast internet to access the website. There are organizations and businesses that most be hosted locally, principally, due to the transactions or the application is very sensitive to latency. So, such people need local hosting.
Partnership With MainOne & Intel
The beauty about the relationship is that, before now, is has been very difficult for small demand to be made for local hosting. That is what the partnership is bringing on the table.
We can be proud of more servers to serve the purpose. Before now, you will probably be talking about a large number of servers before you can even talk to a local hosting provider. But, now you don’t have to walk through the data centre any more, rather, you go through us and we can serve a very small demand and position you on the map.
The Security Point of View
Definitely, it gives organizations that host locally an edge, in terms of security. The truth is that the world has been working very hard to make the internet safe and secured.
No matter how you look at it, at some point, you would have to travel out of the country to access Google, Facebook, and the likes, even though that data is encrypted, there is still a risk of compromise, because the number of routes you have to go through before accessing the server means there is a room for compromise.
Imagine if your data is hosted locally, that means the risk is reduced dramatically. Yes, security might be an issue some times, but let us pretend the internet access between Africa and the rest of the world is blocked.
It implies that every server outside the Continent will not be accessible. Compare that to when you are hosted locally, even when there is fiber cut, you don’t need to have any issues with that, because you are still hosted locally.
Most of the service providers are connected through MainOne; that implies their internet is going to be very fast. I think that is one of the biggest advantages of the partnership.
Estimation of the Market Size (Financially)
I may not give estimation on naira and kobo, but the potentials are huge. Let me us this illustration: a lot of people are prettily concerned about security and they cannot afford to get cloud solutions outside the country.
So, they try as much as possible to host in their office complexes. If you look around, you will see such companies with their servers hosted in-house, which means, they have to worry about power, skill sets, cooling and all that.
Therefore, there are a lot of potentials with customers out there who can move their existing servers to this solution we are providing, so they don’t have to be bothered about hosting within their offices, but will be sure the data are hosted within Nigeria.
Lack of Skills Among SMEs
That is exactly one of the critical solutions we are bringing: taking the burden of lack of skills off the shoulders of the SMEs.
When you are cloud-hosted, it means you are outsourcing, which has been proven to be more cost effective. It means, you don’t need to have a team of about five people managing a server for you. So, as you get the servers from providers like WhoGoHost, we manage it for you or you can have a technical person, who will be mainly concerned with handling the applications, but not bothered about the network card of the server, the hardware, or the disks.
The company’s management don’t have to be bordered about power, cooling, or internet. Data centre readily manages a pool of resources for you; you just focus on your core competent areas.
Cost of Hosting Data Abroad vs Local Hosting
There are arguments about cost of internet provisioning between Lagos and Abuja been more expensive that connecting between Lagos and London, but, in my opinion, if the fibre between Lagos and Abuja is cost, how much will it cost from Lagos to London.
That argument is probably using V-Sat. But, obviously, it is cheaper in-country too. The truth of the matter is that when it data hosting, the cost will be based on demand.
As demand increases, it will be much easier to reduce prices. That is what we are hoping we would achieve in a very short time.
The price is not yet as competitive, however, they are not so high. That’s why we are majoring on those that need local hosting. We do not compete against those international providers. We are not interested in competing with the international hosting providers.
There are a lot of people that demand for local hosting and the interesting things is that hosting locally is usually very expensive. When they get to data centre, they will be required to demand a particular speed, similar to what we have with the internet.
When you get a modem, you have 100MB, 250MB, etc., depending on your demand. That is what it used to be. But with this partnership, the rates will crash.
A lot of things have been considered with this partnership and we are going to do a lot more. This is just a pilot phase, as the demands keep coming, we shall be analyzing them and definitely price will get cheaper and we will start offering unique solutions to Nigerian SMEs, probably what other providers have not thought of.
User Education as Panacea to Curb Security Breaches
We have realized that a lot of people do not understand how to ‘play’ in the internet space. Getting to the internet is easy; you just pay or get is free.
A lot of things are free so people don’t invest on knowing what is important for them to keep safe. the best things to do about internet education is to keep educating people and that is what we have tried to do.
That is where the media come in too, to let people understand the negative impacts of some attitudes they display online. Imagine you acquired a house, very beautiful.
Or, you put a door made of wood, but there is no gate at the entrance to the compound. Or there is a gate, but there is no padlock. So, when you are building a house, you would have put those things into consideration, same way when you are building a website.
When you have a server, you have to put the security apparatuses too. So, service providers can do their beats, but users need to go the extra mile by taking into cognizance the steps to avoid breaches.
It may be something a elementary as not using 123 as your password, or get as complex as upgrading your applications, software or things that some of them may be cumbersome, but at the end, pay off. WhoGoHost will not relent on educating and advising people on security.
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Appeal Court Nullifies Registration of ‘KPMG Professional Services’

The court of appeal in Lagos has asked the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to revoke the certificate of registration of “KPMG Professional Services”.
In a unanimous decision delivered on Thursday, the appellant court granted the reliefs sought by KPMG Nigeria against CAC and KPMG Professional Services.
The judgment was read by Abdullahi Mahmud Bayero, the judge.
The two other judges are Abimbola Obaseki-Adejumo and A.M. Talba.
In 2002, KPMG Professional Services was registered as a company with CAC despite the existence of KPMG Nigeria, comprising its audit, tax, and consulting arms.
The KPMG Nigeria has long been registered in Nigeria before 2002.
KPMG Audit was registered in 1969, KPMG Tax Consultants in 1990, and KPMG Consulting in 1969.
Displeased with the registration of KPMG Professional Services, KPMG Nigeria approached the federal high court.
The consulting firm had argued that the name “KPMG Professional Services” was deceptively similar to its long-established identity.
In 2005, the lower court dismissed KPMG Nigeria’s case, citing an alleged merger between KPMG Nigeria and Akintola Williams Deloitte as reason the company could no longer assert rights to the name.
The lower upheld the second respondent’s (KPMG Professional Services) counterclaim and ordered that KPMG Nigeria’s name be struck off the CAC register.
The lower court had premised its decision on newspaper articles stating that KPMG Nigeria reportedly merged with Akintola Williams Deloitte.
Delivering the judgment, Bayero ruled that the lower court erred by relying on newspaper articles to ascertain that KPMG Nigeria allegedly merged with another company.
The judge said the documents showing the alleged merger were not presented before the lower court, and the form of the alleged merger could not have been known.
“In any event, the only branch of KPMG, if any, that entered into a merger with Akintola Williams as stated in the newspaper articles 18, is KPMG Audit,” the judge ruled.
“The other spheres were totally unaffected. It would therefore be wrong to state that the merger (which has not been shown to this Court) of KPMG Audit with Akintola Williams means all the other areas of business, including KPMG Consulting and KPMG Tax Consultants, also ceased to exist.
“Even if the Appellants (KPMG Nigeria) had ceased to do business as the Court seemed to have held, the 2nd Respondents (KPMG Professional Services) should not have been carrying on business until the Appellant’s certificate of registration is withdrawn or set aside.
“They cannot use the name until the Appellant’s certification of registration is withdrawn or set aside. They cannot use the name until the name is removed from the 1st Respondent’s (CAC) Register of Names.
“The 1st Respondents can only assign the name to the 2nd Respondents after first taking it away from the Appellants.”
The court ruled that CAC erred by registering KPMG Professional Services despite the existence of a business name, which is already registered.
The judge reversed the earlier ruling of the lower court and reaffirmed the primacy of statutory protection for existing business names under Nigerian corporate law.
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Air Peace Launches Abuja–London Heathrow, Gatwick flights October 26

Air Peace has announced the launch of direct flights from Abuja to London Heathrow and Gatwick airports, with operations scheduled to begin on October 26, 2025.
The airline said in a statement on Sunday that round-trip fares for the Abuja–London service will start from N1m, making it the first Nigerian carrier to offer direct connections from the capital to both of London’s major international airports. This was contained in a press release issued on Sunday by the airline’s spokesperson, Efe Osifo-Whiskey.
“Direct international flight services from Abuja to both London Heathrow and London Gatwick Airports, effective October 26, 2025.
“Air Peace becomes the first Nigerian carrier to offer direct services from Abuja to both of London’s major international airports, further solidifying its role as a leader in regional and intercontinental aviation.
“Travellers originating from any of Air Peace’s domestic destinations across Nigeria can now book through fares via Abuja to either Heathrow or Gatwick using a single ticket, eliminating the need for multiple bookings or baggage re-checks,” the statement read.
Similarly, the new route opens convenient access for inbound passengers from the UK to cities across Nigeria.
“Travellers from London can access multiple destinations across Nigeria using a single Air Peace ticket through Abuja every morning. These destinations are Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin, Warri, Owerri, Kano, Yola, Gombe and Asaba, for now. Other destinations will be added later,” Osifo-Whiskey stated.
Air Peace is also offering what it describes as unprecedented value in pricing and service.
Osifo-Whiskey said, “It provides a distinct competitive advantage, enabling passengers to travel between Nigeria and the United Kingdom with greater ease, efficiency, and value, due to the possibility of choosing multiple cities entry and exit points.
“Has the cheapest fares ever, starting from only 1 Million Naira round trip. Huge baggage allowance.”
The Abuja–London launch comes months after the airline began Lagos–London Heathrow flights, which started earlier in 2024.
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Prateek Suri CEO Maser Meets Zambia’s Education Minister to Propel Student Housing and Education Projects

Prateek Suri, CEO of MASER and recognized as the richest Indian entrepreneur in Africa, was welcomed this week by Zambia’s Education Minister, Hon. Douglas Munsaka Syakalima, for a high-level meeting in Lusaka that focused on student housing and broader education infrastructure initiatives.
The meeting, held at the Ministry of Education’s offices, opened with warm greetings and a presentation by Mr Suri detailing Maser’s plans to support Zambia’s rapidly scaling education sector. Suri, who led Maser to become Africa’s seventh unicorn, emphasized the company’s commitment to infrastructure that benefits students, educators, and communities across the continent.
Minister Syakalima underscored the urgency of addressing Zambia’s student accommodation gap, citing the country’s expanding net enrollment and the need for safe, affordable housing for tertiary students. Under his leadership, the Government has embarked on a bold infrastructure agenda: over 82 secondary schools already completed, 46 set to be finished in 2025, and 120 new institutions under construction, alongside 169 ECE hubs and 145 satellite centers to reach underserved areas.
During the meeting, Suri shared Maser’s vision for modern student housing built through public–private partnership models. He outlined a multi‑phase plan utilizing sustainable building design, digital infrastructure, and vocational training facilities integrated into these campuses. “Zambia’s youth deserve world-class learning environments,” Suri remarked. “Maser is prepared to leverage its experience to co-create impactful educational infrastructure.”
Minister Syakalima responded positively, stating, “We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with Maser. The CEO’s entrepreneurial success and the company’s commitment to Africa’s education development are exactly the kind of partnership we need to scale our infrastructure goals.”
Beyond housing, the dialogue extended to opportunities in blended learning, vocational skills, rural outreach, and digital inclusion. With Zambia implementing its forward‑looking 2023 Education Curriculum this year—including early childhood, primary, and Form 1 levels—the minister highlighted the need for supporting infrastructure at all levels to enable effective rollout.
Under Minister Syakalima’s tenure, the education sector has seen notable progress: 4,200 new teachers hired recently, bringing the total teacher workforce to over 40,000 in three years; strengthened focus on foundational learning via teacher training programmes like the “Catch Up Programme”; and ambitious expansion of school infrastructure across Zambia’s provinces.
Maser, co‑founded by Prateek Suri, transformed from an African startup in consumer electeonics and large infrastructure projects into a multi‑sector unicorn operating in real estate, renewable energy, mining and education technology. Its rapid rise and African focus have made Suri a leading figure in bolstering India–Africa economic relations.
As the richest Indian in Africa, Prateek Suri’s influence spans beyond business success—it represents growing bilateral investment aimed at credible, sustainable societal impact. His partnership with Zambia’s Ministry of Education signals a new era of cross-border collaboration in education infrastructure.
With both parties committing to inclusive planning and scalable implementation, the Maser‑Zambia dialogue could mark the beginning of transformative initiatives: from affordable student housing to cutting‑edge learning facilities, vocational training hubs, and digital classrooms.
In closing remarks on the significance of this dialogue, Suri stated, “Education infrastructure is the foundation for future growth. Our partnership with Minister Syakalima and the Government of Zambia is a testament to collective investment in youth, equity, and sustainable development.” Minister Syakalima echoed this optimism, saying that with strategic public–private investment, Zambia’s education sector is poised for a significant elevation.
This meeting lays the groundwork for collaboration that bridges government strategy and corporate innovation—ultimately aiming to empower Zambia’s students and accelerate national development.
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