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Nollywood film 'Black Market' sets Guinness World Record with 51,000 viewers during screening
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Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in late August 1955.
More on Wikipedia ↗Nollywood film has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest audience gathering for a film screening. The record was achieved on Saturday at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, Lagos, where over 51,000 people gathered to watch the crime thriller ‘Black Market’. The announcement was made on social media by…
Nollywood has recorded a major milestone in large-scale cinema exhibition as crime thriller Black Market attracted 51,000 qualifying viewers to Tafawa