Google releases Nigeria’s 2023 Year in Search lists

Google on Monday unveiled the findings of its 2023 Year in Search for Nigeria, showcasing the most popular searches, notable individuals, actors, musicians, topics, questions, and other subjects that captured Nigerians’ attention throughout the year.

Google’s Year in Search is an annual analysis that reveals the top trending lists and also spotlights what the world searches to see, learn, and do.

Google in a statement revealed that in Nigeria, this year’s results show a heightened interest in lifestyle, local politics, and notable personalities such as Moyo Lawal, Peter Obi and Oladipupo Oladimeji, aka Oladips, who topped the trending people’s list for 2023.

It said, Significantly moving up to first place in 2023’s top trending musicians category is Asake, followed closely by singer Khaid and rapper Shallipopi, with Asake’s song “Lonely at the top” also topping the search list of trending songs. Nigerians were evidently interested in entertainment this year as can be reflected in the search for “Gangs of Lagos”, “Shanty town,” and “Soso lyrics”, all of which topped the movies, video series and lyrics categories respectively.

Singer Mohbad. Yoruba actor Murphy Alabi and actor and film producer Saint Obi, all of whom passed this year, topped the search list for loss, with Mohbad also topping the category for the most searched Nigerian news topic in 2023.

Other top-searched questions like “Who is the winner of the 2023 presidential election?”, “What is fuel subsidy?”showed how concerned Nigerians were with the political and economic affairs of the country and how Google Search was used to learn more about their interests in 2023.
Full list of the trending searches in 2023:

Top 10 most searched Nigerian news

1. Mohbad
2. Nigeria national elections 2023
3. Hilda Baci
4. Mr. Ibu
5. Simon Ekpa
6. Ministerial list
7. Seun Kuti
8. Fuel Subsidy
9. Tribunal judgement
10. Yemi Cardoso

Most Searched People

1. Moyo Lawal
2. Peter Obi
3. Oladips
4. Hilda Baci
5. Mudryk
6. Mr. Ibu
7. Simon Ekpa
8. Sam Larry
9. Anita Brown
10. Esther Raphael

Most Searched International News

1. Inter miami
2. Al Nassir
3. Ballon d’or 2023
4. war in Isreal and Gaza
5. Gabon Coup
6. Turkey earthquake
7. Brazil Flood
8. war in Sudan
9. Submarine Implosion
10. Wagner Group

Most Searched Loss

1. Mohbad
2. Murphy Afolabi
3. Saint Obi
4. Christian Atsu
5. AKA
6. Bray Wyatt
7. Don Brymo
8. Costa Titch
9. Tina Turna
10. Matthew Perry

Most Searched Actors

1. Moyo Lawal
2. Empress Njamah
3. Mr. Ibu
4. Nancy Isime
5. Yul Edochie
6. Bimbo Ademoye
7. Maurice Sam
8. Tobi Bakre
9. Ruth Kadiri
10. Olumide Oworu

Most Searched Athletes / Sports people

1. Mudryk
2. Hakimi
3. Declan Rice
4. Caicedo
5. Enzo Fernandez
6. Joao Felix
7. Onana
8. Kai Havertz
9. Mason Mount
10. Wout Weghorst

Most Searched Lyrics

1. Soso lyrics
2. Gwagwalada lyrics
3. Asiwaju lyrics
4. Lonely at the top lyrics
5. Won da mo lyrics
6. Party no dey stop lyrics
7. Sability lyrics
8. Carry me go lyrics
9. Tobechukwu lyrics
10. Reason Omah Lay lyrics

Most Searched Nigerian Singers

1. Asake
2. Khalid
3. Shallipopi
4. Seyi Vibez
5. Kizz Daniel
6. Portable
7. Spyro
8. Boy Spice
9. Odumodublvck
10. Ayra Starr

Most Searched Movies

1. Gangs of Lagos
2. Jagun Jagun
3. Extraction 2
4. Oppenheimer
5. Barbie movie
6. Fast X
7. John Wick 4
8. Blue Beetle
9. Creed 3
10. Heart of Stone

Most Searched Video Series

1. Shanty Town
2. Alchemy of souls
3. alchemy of souls Season 2
4. Big Brother Titans
5. Top Boy
6. Far from home
7. Gen V
8. Wura
9. Sex Life
10. King the Land

Most Searched Mobile Devices

1. Iphone 15
2. Tecno Spark 10 pro
3. Tecno Camon 20
4. Tecno Spark 10
5. Infinix Hot 30i
6. Redmi Note 12
7. Itel a70
8. Itel a40
9. Infinix note 30 pro
10. Infinix Smart 8

Most Searched Songs

1. Lonely at the top – Asake
2. Reason – Omah Lay
3. My G – Kizz Daniel
4. Who is your guy – Spyro ft Tiwa Savage
5. Terminator – KIng Promise
6. Sability – Ayra Starr
7. Asiwaju – Ruga
8. Carry me go – Khalid ft Boy Spyce
9. Ojapiano – KCee
10. Rich till i die – Kizz Daniel

Most Searched ‘What is …’

1. What is fuel subsidy
2. What is the meaning of Idan
3. What is autopsy
4. What is the meaning of Idan in Yoruba
5. What is the cause of Mohbad’s death
6. What is the meaning of body count
7. What is the national flower of NIgeria
8. What is BVAS
9. What is Bell’s Palsy
10. What is Cryptic pregnancy

Most Searched ‘Who Is..’

1. Who is the winner of 2023 presidential election
2. Who is Mohbad’s wife
3. Who is the governor of Kano state
4. Who is Chelsea’s new coach
5. Who is Hilda Baci
6. Who is Sam Larry
7. Who is Simon Ekpa
8. Who is the governor of Osun State
9. Who is Hakimi
10. Who is the winner of bbn all stars 2023