{"id":136450,"date":"2024-01-04T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:12:02","slug":"nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Guinness World Records, on Wednesday, announced another success of a Nigerian, identified as Chancellor Ahaghotu for breaking and setting new challenge after painting for 100 hours.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Ahaghotu, a student of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,\u00a0surpassed the previous record of 60 hours, set by Roland Palmaerts (Belgium\/Canada) in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Before embarking on the record attempt, Ahaghotu said: \u201cI came to the United States to pursue my dreams and build up my career as a recognized artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBreaking the record will boost my recognition as an artist both in my school and the world at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Nigerian Sets GWR For Ladder-Climbing With Ball On Head<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA learnt that for this record, the challenger can either work on one large painting or create multiple ones, but the painting must be of a recognizable image.<\/p>\n<p>However, over four days, Ahaghotu worked to produce 106 pieces depicting all manner of subjects, including celebrities, food items, plants, animals, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the 60th hour, when he surpassed the previous record, he painted a broken record player.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cOne thing I love about the paintings I created is that they were representing my different moods and how I was feeling when I created them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was joy and celebration when I completed the 100 hours,\u201d adding that \u201cIt was a new experience for me and I\u2019m so glad I completed the 100 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis record helps me feel a very high level of personal achievement, build up my career as a reputable artist, and pay a service to my school and country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-373983191\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinness World Records, on Wednesday, announced another success of a Nigerian, identified as Chancellor Ahaghotu for breaking and setting new challenge after painting for 100 hours. It was gathered that Ahaghotu, a student of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,\u00a0surpassed the previous record of 60 hours, set by Roland Palmaerts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guinness World Records, on Wednesday, announced another success of a Nigerian, identified as Chancellor Ahaghotu for breaking and setting new challenge after painting for 100 hours. It was gathered that Ahaghotu, a student of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,\u00a0surpassed the previous record of 60 hours, set by Roland Palmaerts [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Nollywood\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg\",\"width\":650,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Guinness World Records, on Wednesday, announced another success of a Nigerian, identified as Chancellor Ahaghotu for breaking and setting new challenge after painting for 100 hours. It was gathered that Ahaghotu, a student of the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,\u00a0surpassed the previous record of 60 hours, set by Roland Palmaerts [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":650,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"headline":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record","datePublished":"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/"},"wordCount":277,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg","articleSection":["Nollywood"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/","name":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg","datePublished":"2024-01-04T07:12:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ahaghotu.jpg","width":650,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/04\/nigerian-art-student-sets-new-guinness-world-painting-record\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nigerian Art Student Sets New Guinness World Painting Record"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}