Google on Thursday highlighted the top trending personalities, music, movies, high-profile deaths as well as sports that trended in the first half of 2022.
Search trends information is gotten from Google data, based on what Nigerians have been searching for and asking Google.
Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Relations Manager, Google West Africa, said in a statement that the first half of 2020 had been eventful with high-profile deaths, politics, and personalities among others.
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The manager said that Peter Obi is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as the Governor of Anambra from 2006 to 2014.
Kola-Ogunlade said that Obi is currently the Labour Party nominee for President of Nigeria in the 2023 presidential election.
According to him, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President also grabbed the attention of Nigerians in the first six months of 2022 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine became topical across the globe.
“Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, also led search interest by Nigerians when she slapped Ebelechukwu, the wife of the immediate past governor of Anambra, Chief Willie Obiano.
“A second famous slap comes in at number five on the list of top trending people after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in March.
“AFCON 2022 topped the list of most searched moments between January and June, Senegal beat Egypt in the final match of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) football competition to emerge winner,’’ he said.