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Google has announced introduction of  five additional products that would enable internet users to access information with ease. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone West Africa, made this known in an interactive session with some internet users including journalists in Lagos on Friday. Kola-Ogunlade listed the products to include Gboard, Health Knowledge Panel, Movie Showtime, entertainment Archive and Google Post. He advised internet users to take advantage of the products for more relevance. According to him, Google built its platforms and products to be globally relevant. He said that Google introduced Gboard in July to enable sending of messages in dialects including Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa. He described Gboard as a new keyboard from Google for Android or iPhone. “If you are like most Nigerians, then you probably have a grandma, uncle or family member that prefers to read messages in Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa. “Th...

The Lagos State Government has arraigned a woman, Gift Igwe, who set her 10-year-old brother-in-law ablaze in Agunfoye area of Ikorodu, Lagos. The boy, Chimobi, who has been taken into protective custody by the Lagos State Government, sustained extensive burn injuries on his back and arms. Chimobi was set ablaze by the woman for misplacing his trousers and could not produce them when Gift demanded them from him. The boy was reportedly rescued by residents of the community, who heard the cry of the boy and rushed him to hospital. The Director of the Office of Public Defender, Mrs. Olubukola Salami, told Saturday PUNCH that the boy is now in a children’s home. Igwe, a nursing mother, was charged with assault causing grievous harm under Section 254 of the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos, 2011. She has since been granted bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties with like sum but has failed to perfect the conditions Salami said the OPD had the intension of taking Igwe’s four...