Good People, join me to congratulate my FUTO classmate, Oyaje Idoko, as his company, Layer3, celebrates the 20th anniversary. If you can start a company in Nigeria and it stays alive for 20 years, you sabi well well. Oyaje knows his stuff and is built with FUTO’s peerless and unmatched excellence in technology leadership and service.
Layer3 is the only cloud provider that has the 3S in Nigeria and that means with Layer3, you get Data Sovereignty (your data is there in Nigeria), Data Infrastructure (the infrastructure is there in Nigeria) and Personnel Sovereignty (Nigerians run the show). No other company can brag about that, and that is why when security matters, Layer3 has served Nigeria.
I was checking his LinkedIn page and noticed the 20th year anniversary and moved to commend how he has provided hundreds of jobs in our nation. I went to check how he is coping with the security challenges in his state of Benue. To our brothers and sisters in Benue and beyond, we wish everyone strength over the incessant security paralysis in Nigeria. What is going on?
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Back to focus, let us wish Layer3 many more business years ahead. I have many classmates who run many amazing businesses in Nigeria, and whenever I remember them, I am moved on the power of education., Yes, some went straight to business without working for anyone, just on the pure knowledge they acquired from FUTO. (Those days it was a tough call because there were many jobs for great grads; every week, banks and telcos were hiring thousands)
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