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  • Nigerian DJs attempt to smash world record for longest DJ relay

    A total of 200 top disc jockeys in Nigeria will attempt to bring glory and honour to the country by setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest and longest club Deejay relay session come March 31.

    The event, billed to hold at the Beach Front of Hard Rock Café, Oniru, Lagos will see DJs of various skills and ages such as DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ Neptune, DJ Consequence, DJ Cwitch, DJ Mase, DJ Tempo etc under the umbrella body of all of Deejays Association of Nigeria (DJAN), perform from 3:00pm for 600 minutes without dropping a beat in a nerve-breaking showcase tagged “DJ Mixathon”.

    The largest club DJ session relay involving 147 DJs was achieved by Stoney Roads in Sydney, Australia, on October 21, 2016.

    The Managing Director of Siglo Innovations, organisers of the history-making event, Olanrewaju Ojo, said the idea is to give Nigerian DJs international recognition while also bringing global recognition for the country.

    Speaking further, Ojo said, “We want to give you an experience you’ve never had before. This is a party like no other and the experience in once in a lifetime.

    “DEJAN is a large organization with over 5,000 members with DJ Jimmy Jatt as their president, DJ Mase as Secretary and DJ Tempo as Financial Secretary.  Lots of radio DJs and Club DJs are under that platform, so you should expect all of them at the event.

    “This venue is a secured location and you can see it is serene and classic. Also we have support from Lagos State government supporting us with traffic management and security personnel on that day.

    “The event is open to members of the public and tickets are not for sale but are available through partner brands.”

  • Guinness world record dance breaker, Pinki Debbie praises mum for feat

    Guinness world record dance breaker, Pinki Debbie praises mum for feat

    The Guinness world record breaker for long dance individual, Odumewu Deborah Sunmisola a.k.a Pinki Debbie has described her mum as the ‘ginger’ or driving force behind her at a recent media chat.

    The 23 year old record breaker who danced for 137hours said: “Dancing is my hobby, I do it at every opportunity I get.”

    She also said “her mom loves dancing too. She encourages me when doing street dance competitions, school choreography and others.”

    Pinki Debbie, the first born of four children, said she started dancing fully while she was in the university in 2011.

    “I joined a dance group ‘Reflection’,” said Pinki Debbie who hails from Ogun State.

    “I wasn’t a professional dancer as at then but I knew I could dance well.”

    She also revealed how she started getting the attention from fans in 2013 when she started posting videos online before she became a professional dancer in 2016.

    When she was asked how she felt joining other like Kalamandalam Hemaletha of India and Kaffy of Nigeria in the Guinness Book Records, Pinki Debbie said she was humbled and overwhelmed.

    “It wasn’t easy while on it but I’m grateful and excited,” said the dancer who also thanked her sponsors such as Puma, Aquila Records and IBD Impex Ltd while revealing her future plans.

    “There are people who are even better than myself but they don’t believe in themselves,” she said.

    “I want to start a dance school, consulting firm in terms of promotion via social media platforms.”

    She also advised up and coming dancers to believe in God and themselves and to be humble, focused and hardworking.

  • Nigeria’s world record bag to be designed by foreign students

    The biggest canvas bag in the world, acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records to have been made in Nigeria by Nigerian pupils, is travelling to various countries to be designed by pupils and world leaders.

    When completed, this will fetch the bag a second Guinness World Record – the largest sequined mosaic bag in the world.

    The  ‘Bag of Hope’, measures 10.30 metres (33ft.9in) long, 9.36m wide, and 2.65m deep, and was made between October 31 and November 1, 2015 by pupils of the Lagos Anglican Girls’ Grammar School, Surulere, Lagos (LAGGS). When held up right, it can drop down three floors of a multi-storey building.

    Mrs Olasubomi Aina, whose foundation, Light Up, is behind the initiative, said the Bag of Hope will be used to raise funds to help vulnerable children affected by the Boko Haram and other insurgencies.

    “We came up with this idea of making the largest canvas bag in the world to raise money for less privileged children,” said Mrs Aina, an alumna of LAGGS.

    While school children will design the bag with sequins, Mrs Aina said the world leaders would design the handle.

    Explaining the significance of their involvement, she said: “We have written letters to leaders of countries and parliaments to design the handle of the bag of hope. We are involving them to show their support for the plight of children. It is to remind them that there is a need to re-visit policies relating to less privileged children.

    “We want different children from different parts of the world to put sequins on the bag. Numbered patches will be sent to countries so they will send to schools.

    “Every child that designs the bag will get a sticker or badge that says, ‘I am a world record breaker.’ They are attempting to break another record, so they would be able to say they were part of the team that designed the largest sequined mosaic bag in the world.”

    While education is important, Mrs Aina said Light Up Foundation’s first focus after raising funds through the bag, is to help families of vulnerable children resettle so they can be secure enough to take care of education.

    “We realised there is a need for proper healthcare and the money we’re raising is for families with children and young people to make sure their health is alright before we want to provide facilities for education.

    “Whatever money we raise, we can start with 1,000 families with children; we can look at resettling them,” she said.

    Mrs Aina appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, governors, and other political leaders to join in designing the bag and supporting the cause, which she said will boost the country’s image.

    “We got funding to make the Bag of Hope in the UK, but I personally rejected the money because the foundation started in Nigeria and I am from here. This kind of thing can help change the name of Nigeria. We have written to the Presidency. We want President Buhari to lead the design. We need to present the certificate of the world record to him. It can’t stay with me because it is addressed to Nigeria,” she said.

    The Foundation is yet to get a response from the presidency regarding getting involved in the exercise.

    Mrs Aina hopes the project would be completed by 2017.

  • AUN breaks crocheting world record

    The American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, is celebrating its feat of getting 485 people to crochet simultaneously for 20 minutes.

    With the most people crocheting simultaneously” record achieved by 426 people crocheting for 15 minutes in New York City five years ago, the university expects to receive recognition from the Guinness Book of Records for the feat.

    The group needlework was an event sponsored by the AUN student union, the student government association, to sensitise residents of Yola, the Adamawa State capital, about the hazards of non-biodegradable litter.

    It was also aimed at surpassing the World Record held by the Americans.

    The crocheting was done inside AUN’s Commencement Hall. The crocheters used plastic yarn made from used shopping bags, since every nylon bag is reusable and renewable.

    Jelena Zivkovic, Director of AUN Learning Resource Centre, who coordinated the programme, read out the rules of the competition, urging the participants to adhere strictly to them to avoid the AUN attempt being disqualified.

    There were external observers as witnesses.

    However, she said the university is still awaiting confirmation from GWR.

    “We have yet to receive official notice from the Guinness World Record administrators, who are based in the USA,” she said.

    Community women making up Yola EcoSentials, a group of social entrepreneurs promoted by AUN, walked the participants through the process before the kickoff of the simultaneous crocheting. The event served to enlighten the community about the university’s ‘waste to wealth’ initiative.

    “You can make money from it,” says Jennifer Che, Coordinator of Sustainability Outreach Programmes& Laboratories.

    Chief Information Officer, Mr. Julius Ayuk Tabe, representing the AUN President Margee Ensign at the kickoff, told participants, “In the light of negative news coming from the northeast, whenever the story of tenacity and togetherness is told, your achievement today will be a reference. This is what your sense of togetherness, teamwork, and can-do-it spirit has made possible today.”

     

  • 300,000 Lagos pupils break world-record

    History was made yesterday in Lagos as 300,000 pupils from across 600 public schools broke the tooth-brushing record in an attempt to enter into the Guinness Book of Records.

    The pupils achieved the feat by brushing their teeth simultaneously for one minute across 326 locations in the state.

    The world record before now was set by India with 117,000 brushing their teeth at the same time.

    At the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, which served as the centre point of the challenge, about 20,000 pupils gathered to take part in the event.

    At 2.15pm, the Founder of HEIT Solutions, Dr. Lawal Bakare, convener of the tooth-brushing challenge project, signalled on the pupils to begin brushing and told them to stop at 2.16pm.

    The pupils were each given a tooth brush and toothpaste provided by Unilever Nigeria Limited, one of the event sponsors.

    He said the new record is subject to verification by officials of the Guinness Book of Records after the report from the locations are collated.

    Bakare said pupils were chosen for the project because they were still at a stage they could embrace new behaviour and attitude.

    He said: “You are the essence of this challenge. We gather here because we believe you are supposed to have better oral health. Most of you do not know that when you don’t have your teeth, you would not grow as you ought to. So we are trying to make you remember three things- brush twice a day, brush using the appropriate technique and visit the dentist regularly.”

    Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, congratulated the pupils for being part of the feat. She said it was historic for their generation.

    Brand Manager, Unilever (Close Up), Mr. Kester Abiola, noted that less than 50 per cent of Nigerians brush their teeth twice a day. He said that was not good enough.