9 most searched topics on Google in August

Emmanual Ibe Kachikwu.

Because Nigerians don’t play around with their crude oil, when President Buhari appointed Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we had to find out for ourselves if he really was an Energy, Petroleum and Investment Law specialist with 25 years in the global Oil and Gas industry.

D'Tigers.

Nigerian love their sports and they support their national teams with easily noticeable vehemence. That’s why we all rushed to find out the happenings at the FIBA 2015 Afrobasket championships in Tunisia where Nigeria’s senior male basketball team, D’tigers, beat 10-time champion and perennial nemesis, Angola by 74 – 65 points to finally win the gold medal.

Oh, beautiful sexy Eva!

We love our national teams but we also love football more. Particularly the EPL, which is arguably the best league in the world, where Chelsea FC Chief Medic. Eva Caneiro found herself in ‘Google’ spotlight after her altercation with Coach Jose Mourinho during the blues hard-fought draw with Swansea. Unfortunately, the beautiful sexy doctor got relegated to the club’s training facilities after losing this particular battle to The One.

Straight Outta Compton.

Of course showbiz is everyone’s business that’s why everyone was eager to swallow all the knowledge they could about the release of Straight Outta Compton, movie biopic of rap group N.W.A (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy E) and Dre’s accompanying soundtrack album, which sparked a social media frenzy with the Straight Outta (caption) meme.

Skiibii is still dead! Or is he?

One showbiz stunt that didn’t really go so well, however, was the now infamous death and resurrection of relatively unknown Five Star Music act, Skiibii.

The artiste’s alleged collapse and ultimate death had been widely mourned – and searched – on Google and all over the media, only for label mate Kcee to then ‘announce’ him back to life.

What is an Abobaku?

The Abobaku (‘he who dies dies with the king’, literally) who refused to accompany the king to the afterlife also sent hordes of Nigerians to Google, although we were later assured that Mr. Abobaku was not AWOL and was ‘ready and willing’ to fulfill his destiny - at least that’s what the official statement said.

Lexus Hoverboard.

READ: Auto company releases video of hoverboard

Leaving tradition behind, as Lexus sent ‘googling’ away with launch of its hoverboard – a magical device that simply floats on air.

Let's ride our 'hoverboards' everywhere.

A similar apparatus also got American rapper, Wiz Khalifa and Nigeria’s own May D, in trouble with the Nigerian singer allegedly getting peppersprayed.

Android One.

Another technological wonder that put Google engines to serious work is Google’s Infinix MTN Jumia Android One smartphone, a ridiculously cheap, high performance device that will tur the lives of millions of Africans around.

Our friendship with Google doesn’t look to be ending anytime soon, and since August was so fun, we anticipate the illuminating information we will be able to wean off the worlds’ greatest search engine in the coming months.