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.
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, personalities among others.
Mr Kola-Ogunlade said that such trends and searches were as a result of happenings and events of interest that caught people’s attention.
He said the top three trending people in Nigeria in the first half of the year were Peter Obi, Putin and Bianca Ojukwu.
The manager said that Peter Obi is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as the governor of Anambra from 2006 to 2014.
Mr Kola-Ogunlade said that Mr Obi is currently the Labour Party candidate 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.