By Omolola Afolabi

The world’s largest search engine, Google, has celebrated Nigeria on its website with a special doodle to commemorate the nation’s 60th Independence Anniversary on October 1.

The doodle features the Nigerian green and white colours with a picture of a brown eagle standing with figure 60.

A click on the doodle opens up another page where important facts about Nigeria and its history are displayed.

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To mark the Nigeria’s 59th Anniversary in 2019,the doodle showed a picture of Nigeria with Aso Rock at the background.

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements and notable historical figures.

In January 2010 the first animated Doodle honored Sir Isaac Newton.