Hilda Baci thanks God, eyes portfolio expansion after given land donation
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Hilda Baci has expressed appreciation to her superfans for backing her up to claim the Guinness World Records (GWR) holder for the Longest Marathon Cooking by an individual after GWR announced from its London headquarters that its confirmation is its best performing tweet ever.
The chef in a series of tweets thanked God, her family, fans, and colleagues whose encouragement helped her achieve the feat and highlight Nigeria on the world map.
“I want to say a big thank you to God Almighty for giving me the strength and seeing me through the whole process, to my family and friends thank you so much you mean so much to me, I love you,” she said.
“To my amazing team – the A team, thank you so much for all the work you put into making the Cookathon a success.
“To my supporters, to Nigerians, thank you so much for your love and support. Thank you the whole of Africa for your love and support, it still feels unreal. Thank you, I appreciate every single one of you I don’t take your love and support for granted.”
Hilda spoke after GWR announced its confirmation of her record is its best performing tweet of all time.
“Yeah, so this is our best performing tweet of all time with nearly 25 million news feeds reached 🤯” GWR posted in a follow up to its Tuesday confirmation tweet, per The Guardian.
“Hilda’s cook-a-thon was in fact so popular that our website crashed for two days due to the immense volume of traffic we received from her legion of loyal fans.”
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Hilda Baci gets N5.7m land donation in Lagos; excited, eyes portfolio expansion
Hilda Bassey, also known as Hilda Baci, was on Wednesday donated a N5.7 million land in Epe, Lagos by Zealand Properties for cooking her way into the GWR.
Estate developer Zealand Properties announced her as the latest landlady at its Yomade Heritage in Epe, delivered on its promise in May when the celebrity chef was attempting to break the world record in her cook-a-thon in Lekki, Lagos.
Hilda visited Zealand headquarters in Ikeja where she signed and received the document that made her an official landlady at Yomade Heritage.
After the ceremony, she disclosed she would cash in on the current price and buy one more plot of land for herself.
“I’m super excited because they were so kind to gift me a plot of land in one of their prime locations in Epe, and trust me, at the price that they are currently selling, I’d probably buy one for myself because it honestly feels like a steal,” she enthused.
Zealand Properties Managing Director Adedeji Agarawu commended Hilda for her drive and hard work, which he said made her to deserve the reward, and counselled other youths to emulate her.
“I appreciate hard work, and what you pulled out there was incredible hard work. You must have gone the extra mile and conquered a lot of fear to have achieved your feat,” Agarawu.
Hilda attempted to set a record of 100 hours, but GWR deducted almost seven hours from her final count because she mistakenly took extra minutes for one of her rest breaks early on in the marathon which lasted from May 11 to May 15.
Nonetheless, she surpassed the previous world record of the Longest Cooking Marathon by an individual set at 87 hours 45 minutes in India in 2019 by Tala London.
