Google has turned green-white-green following the ongoing celebration of Nigeria's Independence Day Anniversary today the 1st of October 2022, the exact day, the country was created in 1960.
Recall that Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first known as "BackRub" in 1996, with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Sternberg.
The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003.
This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies.
The company launched Google News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google Maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011, which was shut down in April 2019, in addition to many other products.
In 2015, Google became the main subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Incorporation.
The search engine went through many updates in attempts to eradicate search engine optimization
Google has engaged in partnerships with NASA, AOL, Sun Microsystems, News Corporation, Sky UK, and others. The company set up a charitable offshoot, Google.org, in 2005.
The name Google is a misspelling of Googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine, intended to provide large quantities of information.
Meanwhile, a Journalist based in Ebonyi State, Comrade Jacob Ogodo has said that Nigeria as a nation doesn't deserve Google celebrating her 62nd Independence Anniversary.
According to him, "why must any reasonable person congratulate a country at the age of 62?
"Nigeria at 62 has not truly translated the colours of her flag being showcased by Google today in commemoration of her Independence Day Anniversary on 1st October 2022.
"I know the green-white-green colours of Nigeria's flag have a well celebrated valuable and significance.
"Green symbolizes life, richness - natural endowment, and white colour means peace, transparency and reliability but I don't think today, these attributes are the true pictures of Nigeria following the wanton corruption, favouritism, tribalism, insecurity and bad leadership dragging the country and her citizens backwards."
Also, Egede Lawrence, Nnede Bethel, Zik Idoma, and many others, who spoke with our correspondents urged Nigerian leaders to work hard to reshape the future of Nigeria, by making sure her well-celebrated sobriquet as the Giant of Africa begins to recoup a better ground today and onwards following the Independence Anniversary.
They also lamented the high level of insecurity, unemployment, abuse of human rights, and failed government in Nigeria as a democratic nation, and called the relevant authorities to devise means to change ugle narratives.
The respondents equally called on Nigerian citizens especially those at the voting age to get ready by obtaining their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC), to choose leaders of the country who would elevate the country from the back rolling governance.
