Football, feuds, farewells dominate Nigeria's Google search trends in H1

EVERY headline now has a second life in the search bar. From penalty shootouts to celebrity scandals, Nigerians turned to Google to process the biggest stories of the year so far.

Adeyemi Adepetun

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