Miss Kebbi’s emergence as the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria dominated searches on the internet search engine, Google, last week.
Google Spokesman, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said this in a dispatch to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
According to Kola-Ogunlade, the week’s top trending search terms on Google Nigeria are dominated by sport news, strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and MBGN among others.
He said: “The 30th edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) pageant held last Saturday produced Miss Kebbi as winner of the beauty contest over 35 other contestants that participated.
“Miss Kebbi will represent Nigeria later in the year at the Miss World Pageant in November in China.
“Fans and wellwishers took to Google to search for photos of the new queen.”
Kola-Ogunlade added that in the world of sports, Chelsea and Arsenal Premier League match at Stamford Bridge last Sunday saw Arsenal end its five-match losing streak with a 0-0 draw.
He added that football critics and fans raced to Google to search for clips from Sunday’s match.
Tunisia was crowned champions of Afrobasket, the men’s basketball continental championship, on Saturday, Kola-Ogunlade said.
He noted that Tunisia was declared the winner after scoring 77-65 against defending champions and co-host, D’Tigers, Nigeria’s senior male basketball team.
He stated that Basketball fans raced to Google to search for more details about the game.
The Google manager said Academic Staff Union of Universities strike that started more than one month ago was suspended by the union on Monday.
He added that a government delegation and the union signed a memorandum of understanding and announced that the strike would be suspended until the end of October.
He noted that the National Association of Nigerian Students expressed happiness that the strike was suspended and commended Federal Government and ASUU for resolving the situation amicably.
“Excited students and parents raced to Google to get full details of the news,” he said.
Google Trends, launched in May 2006, allows one to see how popular search terms and its demography have been over time on Google.
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