BBC According to Tembu Ebere, he briefly lost his sight because he was trying to cry continuously for a whole week in an attempt to hold the world record for shedding tears. As a result, he suffered a headache, swollen face and puffy eyes before being partially blinded for 45 minutes.
“I had to re-strategize and hold back my crying,” Ebere told the outlet, adding that he was determined to hold back his tears — he didn’t apply for the GWR, so it doesn’t count. could.
But, he is not the only record-breaker in the West African nation, there are many Nigerians attempting to break records as the country is obsessed with setting records.
In another example, in May a chef named Hilda Bassey attempted to “put Nigerian cuisine on the map” by cooking continuously for 100 hours. telegraph report As celebrities and even the country’s Vice President lauded him, the official website guinnessworldrecords.com was flooded with messages, which crashed for two days.
The 26-year-old managed to cook for 93 hours and 11 minutes, breaking the previous cooking marathon record set in India in 2019.
The GWR has urged Nigerians to beware of their paranoid attempts and advised people to register or risk their records being recognised.