Statistics released by Google yesterday shows that football search top the stories that trended most in Nigeria for the Last 7 days.
The company said that excited Liverpool fans raced to Google to read more details about the new Premier League record set by the club, following their 2-1 win against Newcastle on Saturday at Anfield.
It would be recalled that Liverpool has scored against Newcastle at Anfield in 22 consecutive meetings, a Premier League milestone in home games against a single club.
Coming in second place was the news of Popular American rapper William Leonard Roberts, commonly referred to, by his stage name Rick Ross, who was reported to have been rushed to the hospital after he was found unresponsive on Thursday at his home in Florida.
Google reports that since the news broke, celebrity friends, fans and well-wisher of the rapper searched Google to get updates about his health.
Football news once again was the third most trended searches, no thanks to Manchester United’s dramatic 3-2 win against Crystal Palace on Monday, the club, who were down by 2-0 in the first half, made a remarkable turnaround in injury time.
This made the excited ManU fans raced to Google to search for match fixtures and more updates.
Google said that the arrest of a Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board official called Philomina Chieshe, who claimed that the N36 million money derived from the sale of JAMB scratch cards was mysteriously swallowed by a snake, but after further interrogation by the EFCC, reportedly retracted her earlier claim and confessed that the money was collected by her superior made interested Nigerians turned to Google to read more about this new development, thereby making ‘JAMB’ a top trending search term.
News about a group of researchers led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, that they have used new modelling scenarios to showcase several ways to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C by 2100, made Global warming one of the most trended searches in Nigeria in the last 7 days as interested Nigerians searched Google to read more about this new research finding.