Hilda Bassey Effiong Sets, A New Guinness World Record For ‘Longest Cooking Time’

The Guinness World Record for the “longest cooking marathon by an individual” has been broken by Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci.

Chef Hilda Baci

The previous record was held by Guinness World Record holder, Chef Lata Tandon, the cooking lasted for 87 hours 45 minutes, a record time.

On Monday morning, that record was shattered by Hilda Baci after cooking for a record-breaking 96 hours, setting a new world record for the amount of time spent cooking.

Hilda launched into the competition on Thursday at exactly 4 pm when she put on her cooker.

Hilda has garnered massive support from fans, political leaders, celebrities, clerics, and other well-meaning Nigerians.

Congratulations Chef!

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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wins Big In Governor Nyesom Wike's Local Government Area

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has won the Obio-Akpor, the Local Government Area of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rivers State by a landslide. Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to defeat the Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came a distant second with 3,829 and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 368 votes.

North Korea Confirms First COVID Outbreak

North Korea has confirmed its first COVID-19 death, and says hundreds of thousands of people have “fever”, in the first indication of the scale of the outbreak in its largely unvaccinated population. The nuclear-armed country announced on Thursday its first coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began, moving into lockdown after it said people in the capital, Pyongyang, tested positive for the Omicron variant. “A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April,” the official Korean Central News Agency said on Friday. “Six persons died (one of them tested positive for the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron),” it added. About 350,000 people have shown signs of “fever”, while 187,800 people are being treated in isolation, according to KCNA. Experts worry North Korea’s health system will be unable to cope with spread of COVID in an unvaccinated population, they also believe the virus has been present in the country for some time, the authorities only a...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Extend Its Ongoing Strike Again

Despite heated negotiations at a meeting which was held at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja from Sunday till Monday morning. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decided to extend its ongoing strike. Today marks the 196th day since the action strike began on February 14th, 2022.

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