Nigerian paints nails for three days in world record bid

A Nigerian pistillate says she has painted implicit 4,000 nails successful 72 hours successful an effort to interruption the satellite record.

With a nail brushwood successful manus Lisha Dackor,19, whizzed astir an events centre successful Plateau state, bluish Nigeria, adorning hundreds of fingernails with blue, pinkish and purple varnish.

Her three-day marathon came to a nail-biting extremity connected Wednesday.

Guinness World Record (GWR) rules authorities that for Ms Dackor's effort to count, she indispensable overgarment 60 fingernails per hour.

She is present waiting for GWR to reappraisal her effort aft she submits her evidence.

Ms Dackor said she embarked connected this situation to alteration the communicative astir teen mothers similar herself.

"I privation to springiness radical hope, particularly azygous mothers due to the fact that galore radical don't deliberation we person thing to offer," she told the BBC.

The nail technician has been moving professionally for astir 3 years and says she besides wants to enactment women from bluish Nigeria successful the spotlight.

Ms Dackor says she besides hopes her grounds effort volition enactment Plateau, her location state, connected the map.

Plateau is wherever Nigeria's chiefly Muslim northbound meets the mostly Christian southbound and galore communities are mixed.

The portion has battled decades of insecurity and struggle betwixt antithetic taste and spiritual groups, which has seen thousands killed.

"People justice the Plateau by the cover. Apart from the taste issues we have, Plateau is simply a beauteous place. I got enactment from each taste groups portion I embarked connected this attempt," she said.

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