Nigerian travel content creator Alma Asinobi is on a mission: to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to visit all seven continents. Come March 15th, she will begin her journey from Antarctica, stepping foot on every continent before arriving at Australia. She aims to achieve this feat, which is her biggest challenge yet, in 70 hours. Making the announcement via...
British-Nigerian designer Liz Sanya has attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest sandal in the world. She began her 72-hour journey on January 2, completing it on the 4th of January, 2025 at Pixel Park, Lekki, Lagos. Her Guinness World Record (GWR) attempt, which attracted a large crowd of supporters who came to witness the remarkable...
Adeola Adeyeye, a chef from Ondo State has begun a 150-hour cook-a-thon to break Hilda Baci’s 93 hours 11 minutes Guinness World Record. This comes after another Nigerian chef, Adeparusi Damilola aka Chef Dammy embarked on a 120-hour cook-a-thon in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Adeyeye began the cook-a-thon on Friday, June 30, 2023, in the Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local...
The Guinness World Record revealed it didn’t receive an application from Chef Dammy before she began her cooking marathon attempt. Chef Dammy from Ekiti took the internet by storm after she attempted a 120-hour-cook-a-thon in a bid to beat Hilda Baci’s record. Her action was however met with mixed reactions on social media. Recall that the record body was silent...
Two Japanese sisters have been certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living identical twins at over 107 years and 300 days. Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima island in western Japan on Nov. 5, 1913. They were separated after elementary school, when Kodama was sent to work...
A South African woman has set a new world record by giving birth to 10 babies at once. Gosiame Thamara Sithole broke the World Record held by Malian woman Halima Cisse who gave birth to nine children in May 2021. The 37-year-old underwent a caesarian operation to give birth to decuplets (seven boys and three girls) at 29 weeks. Reports further indicate...
A bride from Cyprus, Maria Paraskeva, has bagged a Guinness World Record for the ‘longest wedding veil’, measuring 6,962.6 metres (22,843 ft 2.11 in). GWR shared the video of Paraskeva wearing the veil and further informed that it took six hours and 30 volunteers to deploy the lace veil to its full length. The caption quoted Paraskeva as well, which...
Nigerian-born British skater Tinuke Oyediran also known as Tinuke Orbit set not one but two Guinness records. She broke two previous skating records hereby creating a new Double Guinness record on Guinness World Record Day 2020. The 27-year Professional roller skater broke the record for most cartwheels on roller skates in one minute, she recorded 30 cartwheels on roller skates....