People these days try crazy things and one such attempt made a Nigerian man temporarily blind. According to Telegraph, a man who forced himself to cry for seven days said he went temporarily blind. The craze for eccentric feats of endurance has swept Nigeria as people try to leave a mark in the Guinness World Records. As per the report, a surge in record-breaking attempts has been seen from Africa’s most populous nation in recent months, sparked by a chef’s four-day cooking marathon that caught the public imagination. 


Meanwhile, Tembu Ebere, who has been attempting to weep non-stop for a week, said he had experienced headaches, puffy eyes and a swollen face, and went partially blind for 45 minutes amid his own efforts. 


 “I had to re-strategise and reduce my wailing,” he told the BBC, adding he was determined to sob towards his target despite the difficulties encountered. 


This comes after a chef called Hilda Baci in May attempted to cook continuously for 100 hours to “put Nigerian cuisine on the map”. As per the report, her attempt was so widely followed that it caused the official website guinnessworldrecords.com to crash for two days. She was cheered on by celebrities and Nigeria’s vice president. 


The 26 year-old managed to cook for 93 hours 11 minutes, which was enough to break the previous cooking marathon record set in India in 2019. 


This is reported to have inspired a wave of similar attempts for activities including the longest time spent singing, praying, and even kissing. 


As per a BBC report, John Obot, a schoolteacher, said that he would be attempting to spend 140 hours reading classic literature aloud in September. 


“The motivation is to promote reading culture in Nigeria,” he said, adding he had chosen a “record that is meaningful”. 


Elsewhere, the report said, a masseuse trying to set a massage endurance record collapsed after 50 hours and in another marathon cooking attempt, two chefs were disqualified after they turned off their stoves and went to sleep. Noticing these bizarre attempts, Guinness World Records itself has urged Nigerians to go easy and advised hopefuls to liaise with the body, or risk their records not being recognised. 


“Please, enough of the record-a-thons,” the organisation behind the book of records said on social media after someone broached the idea of two separate attempts – an “idea-a-thon” and a “puff-puff-a-thon”. 


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