Nigerian Founder Sells Dubai Business to Fund Keepaza, a Payment Identity Platform Built for How Nigerians Actually Transact

Akindele Liasu has committed significant founder capital to Keepaza, the...

Akindele Liasu has committed significant founder capital to Keepaza, the Nigerian payment identity platform he founded under OH Mobility Solution Limited, following the restructuring of his UAE business operations under OH Mobility FZ LLC.

The capital commitment marks a defining moment for the platform and signals the beginning of an aggressive growth phase for a product that has quietly been solving one of the most frustrating daily problems in Nigerian commerce.

The decision to liquidate overseas business interests and redirect the proceeds into a Nigerian startup is not a common one. Most founders move in the opposite direction. Akindele’s choice says something deliberate about where he believes the most important opportunity sits right now.

“Every day in Nigeria, millions of people are pasting their bank account numbers into WhatsApp chats with strangers, sharing their financial details publicly in Instagram DMs, and hoping nothing goes wrong,” said Liasu.

“I have watched vendors lose clients because they looked unprofessional. I have watched freelancers lose international deals because they could not explain how to receive USDT. I have watched people send money to the wrong account and lose it permanently. These are not edge cases. This is daily Nigerian life. I sold a part of my Dubai operations because I believe deeply that this problem deserves a real solution and I was not willing to wait for someone else to build it.”

Keepaza gives every Nigerian a single verified username that resolves simultaneously to their bank account and cryptocurrency wallet addresses across five blockchain networks including TRC20, ERC20, BEP20, Bitcoin, and Solana.

Instead of sharing sensitive financial details in public chats, a user shares one clean link — keepaza.com/theirname — and anyone who wants to pay them sees exactly what they need without the risk of screenshots, wrong numbers, or public exposure of private financial information.

The platform has also introduced an invoicing layer that allows fre...