Now make no mistake, motives can be a slippery thing. Unless the proposed venture is clearly illegal, I wouldn’t go so far as to declare anyone’s motives to be good or bad.

The year was 2012. I was fresh out of NYSC and had a bunch of quixotic ideas about online media. At that time, procuring my own office space was laughably out of the question.

How easy is it to be a start-up in Nigeria? You could look at the ease of doing business rankings — we rank 169 out of 189 countries, up one spot from 170 in 2015, so that’s progress, I guess?