It felt like paradise, in 2013, when the serial investor and entrepreneur, Marek Zmysłowski, started Jovago, a hotel booking platform, and Hotelonline.co, a hospitality software company. Nigeria had become his latest home and it brought success, Jovago, which became Jumia Travel, experienced double-digit growth monthly and quickly became one of the biggest hotel booking sites in Africa. Great opportunities come with great risks though.”Fast forward to 2017, Chinedu was played a ruinous hand. Assets were seized, bank accounts frozen by an order from the Nigeria police. I’m probably the only foreigner in the history of Nigeria to sue its police and win.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2019 08:37 UTC