Nigerian Bayode breaks Guinness record in Longest Marathon Reading Aloud
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bayode began reading at 130 pm on monday february 26 2018 and ended it 15.30 on saturday1 a nigerian olawunmi bayode has set a new guinness record in the longest marathon reading aloud category1 the latter had 113 hours 15 minutes in 20081 another nepalese tudikhel ground tied the record1 bajagains book reading began on september 19 and ended on september 24 20081 he recited 17 different books from 13 authors during his record attempt1 bayode father of three kids logged 120 hours at 15.30 today at the youread library yaba in lagos beating the previous record set by nepali deepak sharma bajagain1 he announced the record on his facebook page saying1 hello everybody something just happened right now my name is bayode treasures olubunmiolawunmi i have just finished reading aloud for 120 hours non-stop1 i did it for the culture1 bayode studied at osun state polytechnic iree and comprehensive high school ketu in lagos1 i have always loved to read good materials right from when i was in secondary school. i am doing this for the youths he wrote on twitter before he began the record setting reading marathon1