LAGOS (AFP)

When university student Ayodeji Adewunmi faced daunting hurdles in starting his own business in Nigeria, he turned to an unlikely source of inspiration: the country’s huge youth unemployment problem.

“Our mission was to have the largest active job list in the country,” he told AFP.

He may have accomplished the goal. Adewunmi’s now claims to be the leading job-finder site in Africa’s most populous country, with a staff of more than 50 and some 9,000 companies posting positions.

Interview of Ayodeji Adewunmi