Gmail Now Has 75% Mobile Users Of 900m Active Users

Google’s senior vice president of products Sundar Pichai today announced that Gmail now has a total of 900 million users at the company’s annual I/O developers conference. That’s up from 425 million in 2012, the last time the company updated its official Gmail users stats. Pichai also noted that 75 percent of these Gmail users now access their accounts on mobile devices.

When Google last updated its numbers, Gmail became the most popular email service in the U.S. after passing Hotmail (now Outlook.com), which had long held on to the number one spot. Sadly, most of Google’s competitors haven’t updated their user numbers in quite a while. Chances are, though, that Gmail is still at the top of the pack.

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How French Woman Enslaved And Abused Her Ex-Boyfriend For More Than A Year

A French woman who enslaved and abused her ex-boyfriend for more than a year has been jailed for 18 months.

Zakia Medkour, now 43, met Maxime Gaget, 37, over the internet in 2007 and he moved into her Paris studio flat some months later.

But within months he had lost his job and she had taken away his credit and identity cards.

Cigarettes were stubbed out on his skin and he was forced to swallow sponges and window-cleaning fluid.

The case, seen in France as helping to lift a taboo on domestic abuse suffered by men, came to prominence when Mr Gaget wrote about his experiences in a book, My partner, my torturer.

French campaign groups say abuse by men against women is three times more common, but say as many as 7,000 men complain of abuse every year.

Domestic abuse claims the lives of one woman ever three days and one man every 13 days, they estimate.

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Governor Amaechi Turns Spartacus On His 50th Birthday

As Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers state clocks 50 years today. Different wishes has been sent from friends and political associates but one could not but notice the one from Phrank Shaibu the coordinator, public communications and strategy.

His advert dressed the Governor in an armor to showcase him as a warrior that has survived against all odds.

The advert reads:

The Lion of Ubima,

The nemesis of jesus of Otueke and her baby jesus of the rock,

Change ambassador extraordinaire,

Finest DG of presidential campaigns,

I throway salute.

May your 50th be truly golden, my dearest boss!

Man Covers Himself With 1.1 Million Bees To Set World Record

Wearing only his underpants, Gao Bingguo set a new Guinness World Record after he covered himself with almost 1.1 million bees, collectively weighing 240 pounds.

The 55-year-old beekeeper accomplished the feat Monday morning in Tai'an, China.

Bingguo was stung more than 2,000 times and his body temperature rose to a burning 140 degrees at one point.

Fellow beekeepers started by first placing a number of queen bees on his body to help attract worker bees. Boxes of bees were later dumped at his feet in increasingly large numbers as the bees crawled on his entire body -- except his mouth.

Binguo smoked a cigarette to prevent the bees from swarming his lips

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Nigerians Are The Ones Corrupting The Police Says IGP

The inspector general of police, IGP Solomon Arase, on Tuesday heaped the blame for corruption in the police on Nigerians and sent out an appeal that Nigerians should stop corrupting his officers and men.

Arase made the appeal while fielding questions from journalists during his meeting with deputy inspectors general of police, assistant inspectors general of police and command commissioners of police where he called on the public not to corrupt police personnel by giving them bribes.

“I am appealing to the members of the public, do not corrupt my policemen. It takes two to tangle. If they ask you for bribe and you refuse to give, and you have avenues where your grievances can be ventilated, I do not see any reason why you should give them bribe.

“The Commissioner of Police is there, the Area Commander is there, the DPO is there, our office is there and the technical platform (to report corrupt police) is there. We have opened ourselves to public accountability. So, you cannot now say the whole problem should be put on the police force’’, he said.

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Fuel Scarcity Makes Funke Akindele Ride Bicycle To Church

Funke Akindele aka Jenifa in the mood of the fuel scarcity had to leave her luxury to ride on a bicycle to church. The Nollywood actress took to her Instagram page to post a picture of the bicycle she rode to church as it was a life saver because the fuel scarcity had also gotten to her.

Her comment include: Thank God for my bicycle! Wonder how I would have gotten to church today. #fuelscarcity

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Oil Marketers To Begin Distribution Of Fuel As Senate Intervenes

Stakeholders in the petroleum sector at a public hearing organized by the Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream), resolved to immediately mobilize their members to commence distribution of fuel across the country. Senator Magnus Abe read a communiqué signed by the stakeholders after the session on Monday. He explained that the Finance Minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and other stakeholders, who attended the meeting, unanimously agreed to the peace deal in the interest of the nation. He added that following the intervention of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the strike embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Energy Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, has also been called off. Abe said, “We have agreed on the following: first is that the Minister of Finance will give an undertaking to the Major Marketers and Depot Managers that the work of the committee being headed by CBN and PPPRA, on the outstanding claims, would be concluded and be reflected in the hand over notes to the incoming administration.” “Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria have agreed to begin lifting of petroleum products nationwide within the next six hours and to also pay the National Association of Road Transport Owners, the transport cost that would be determined by them,” the Senator added.

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