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  • People Are Using Google’s AR Feature To Entertain Themselves During The Lockdown

    Google AR Entertain Quarantine

    One thing we can all agree on about this lockdown period is that if you’re not careful, boredom will kill you. Next thing you know, you’ve become the poor soul who made this meme:

    You know the only thing worse than being bored as an adult? Being a bored adult with bored children and having to find ways to entertain them and yourself.

    Study: Young Black Girls Also Face Racial Bias in School Discipline

    This is why people online have found a new way to entertain themselves: using Google’s Augmented Reality feature to bring 3D versions of wild animals into their living spaces.

    Peep this video to see the tech in action.

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    Google AR Entertain Quarantine

  • We Stan: Google’s Tribute to Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

    Google is paying homage to Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti today by celebrating her posthumous 119th birthday with a wonderful doodle by Nigerian-Italian artist, Diana Ejaita.

    Here’s what you need to know about such a great legend, who once pursued a king from his throne:

    Early Life:

    • She was born on October 25, 1900 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria; and was christened as Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo.
    • She was the first female student in her secondary school, Abeokuta Grammar School, which she attended from 1914 to 1917.
    • She later went on to study at Wincham Hall School for Girls in Cheshire, England from 1919 to 1923.
    • Afterwards, when she returned from England, Madam Kuti stuck to her heritage by giving high preference to her Yoruba name–Funmilayo.

    Activism:

    • As a believer of equal rights for women, Funmilayo was instrumental in educating women; she organized literacy classes classes for women and established a nursery school in the 20s and 30s, respectively.
    • She created the Abeokuta Ladies’ Club (ALC) for educated women in 1942. She also started the social welfare for market women club to help educate working-class women.
    • Regarded as the Lioness of Lisabi, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led a protest in the 40’s against arbitrary taxation on the Egba people; this evetually led to Oba Ademola II’s abdication of his throne in 1949.
    • Funmilayo was a cultural ambassador, ensuring that she was always clad in traditional outfits every time.
    • She was part of the delegation, as the only woman, that laid a formal complaint in 1947 for the colonies. She also partook in the negotiations of Nigeria’s independence.
    • She was the first woman in Nigeria to drive a car and ride a motorcycle.
    • Funmilayo was also an Oloye of the Yoruba land, holding a chieftaincy title.

    Offsprings:

    • She was the mother of the late afrobeats legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and aunty to, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka who also followed in her footsteps as social activists. Apparently, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
    • Her other sons, Beko Ransome-Kuti, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti  were also renowed professors and Mnisters of Health and Education in Nigeria before their deaths.
    • Her grandchildren Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti are also well recognized and highly respected worldwide for their role in the musical world in Nigeria and the world over.

    Even More…

    • Her father, Ebenezer Sobowale Thomas, was a son of a returned slave, from Sierra Leone, who discovered he was from Abeokuta and decided to return to his hometown after he became Anglican.
    • Funmilayo’s husband, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, was an activist as well, although not as fierce as she was. He was one of the founders of the Nigeria Union of Teachers and the Nigerian Union of Students, which are amongst the strongest organizations in the educational system in Nigeria.
    • She died in 1978 after being thrown from a second floor window during a military attack in Fela’s compound.
  • Google, I’m About to Remove My Immunity!

    Recent reports have been making the rounds about why Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wants to waive his immunity and we are here for all the drama.

    Apparently, RootsTV released a video that had Tims Frank, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) making allegations against the Vice President, saying that he took N90billion from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to fund the 2019 general elections which Osinbajo has come out to say are unfounded claims.

    The allegations made Osinbajo so upset that he’s actually considering suing Google if they don’t put down the video making the rounds via RootsTV.

    He’s even more upset than we think because he has said he will waive his immunity to face his accusers, Tim Frank and Katch Ononuju, in court for maligning his reputation

    Now, I’ve got questions.

    Can he actually do that? Wouldn’t it make a mockery of the seat of the Vice President if Osinbajo partially sets aside his immunity to deal with this? Did he really send Google that letter? Please tell me this is some sort of dream so I can wake up!

    But, wait o, now that I think of it, what exactly did Google do wrong? They are just a host for these platforms that shared the story. Will they even respond? Considering that there’ve been a lot of people as important as Osinbajo that have had bad narratives told about them on online media, is his approach right though?

    Furthermore, if his petition is miraculously adhered to by Google does this mean that every Nigerian will be put under scrutiny, whether for good reasons or not?

    Well, since Yemi Osinbajo is lauded for being a pastor, professor and most importantly, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), asides from being Nigeria’s Vice President, I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s doing. Or…maybe not?

  • You Won’t Believe What Ridiculous Things Nigerians Ask Google

    1. This person wants to know how to make love o!

    Please help us refer him to Ramsey Noah abeg!

    2. Why is someone looking for 10 uses of English Language in Nigeria?

    We use English to collect money in the bank.

    3. This one say ‘who killed jesus’?

    Question for the gods.

    4. Okay, we can relate with this one sha because we need helpers too.

    Jesus is the only helper.

    5. But this helper question is getting out of hand sha.

    Even google is tired.

    6. People, this is actually a serious question.

    What is love though? Never experienced that emotion.

    7. So this one wants to get away with a murderer. Wait, what?

    Too much Shonda Rhimes is bad for you.

    8. Someone wants to become the flash, another wants to be a virgin again.

    We are not understanding.

    9. But really, how can we be sure the bible is true?

    Another question for the gods!

    10. This is the only one we care about.

    Because we all need to make more money.