A man in Nigeria has started a 200-hour sing-a-thon (8 days) in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record.
With the clock ticking away to mark his time, the man is prepared to sing continuously for 200 hours while being watched by everyone.
He described his audacious endeavor as a Praise-a-thon, during which he would sing various worship and praise songs.
The man has been singing for two days and twenty hours as of the time of this report, and he still has about seven days to finish the challenge.
Netizens reacts:
tonia.gram_ wrote in reaction: “Aaah. Make the sky no dey big enough for everybody again abeg”
sunfamson wrote: “Everyone that are rebuking the tenacity of Nigerians do not have an idea who Nigerians are. It is the passion for the best, almost to a fault, that continues to position Nigerians influence above many things around the world including Afrobeats. Support them or leave them “
michael..u wrote: “Nigerians wan dey treat this Guinness book like Japa. Everybody dey find the slightest opportunity to run em own.”
bishy.opeyemi wrote: “Oh my days !! As e Dey go like this GWR go soon blacklist Nigerians from contesting in anythin.”
bellokreb wrote: “Make una no spoil this thing”
fine_nenye wrote: “I’m tired of Nigerians. If GWR ban us, na we cause am.”
Guinness World Records release official warning to Nigerians attempting to break a record like Hilda Baci
Guinness World Records has issued an official warning to Nigerians who want to break a record like Chef Hilda Baci.
Guinness World Records took to Twitter today, July 4th, 2023, to advise Nigerians and others on what to do before attempting to break any of their records.
On June 13th, 2023, Guinness World Records confirms Chef Hilda Baci of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, as the world’s longest cooking individual with a time of 93 hours and 11 minutes.
Following this development, other people, mostly Nigerians, including Chef Dammy from Ekiti State and Chef Adeyeye Adeola from Ondo State, sought to break the record by setting targets of 120 and 150 hours, respectively.
Recently, another Nigerian lady identified as Joyc Ijeoma attempts to massage people for 72 hours in Lekki for GWR, however, she collapsed at 50 hours.
Reacting to all these attempts, the Guinness World Record refers to it as futile as the tweet asserts that the world record title must be confirmed before attempting it.
The Guinness World in the post shared content on how to apply to set or break the world record.
The tweet reads;
“Polite reminder that you should probably have your world record title confirmed by our team before attempting it here’s how our process works.”
