Now the truth is that you might hardly find bloggers or content marketers who will tell you the truth because everyone is backing one hosting company in order to receive affiliate COMMISSION, however I would not advice you use a local host if you are really serious with your blog.
I ran an experiment concerning foreign and local host and the full report is available at
https://nairabased.com/foreign-web-host-vs-local-nigeria-web-host/.
Hope you find it informative enough to get you going.