Due to the Coronavirus global pandemic, the Guinness World Record programme which was to hold at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has now been canceled.
The Guinness World Record Hackathon innovation on Renewable Energy was initially scheduled to hold March 21 and was to feature 5,000 students across Kwara State who would be participating in a technology training, but had to be postponed till further notice in accordance to the Federal Government’s directive who has limited public gathering to 50 people as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In explaining the cancellation, the Director of UNILORIN Renewable Energy Centre (UREC), Prof. Joshua Olaoye, said: “To gather 5,000 students in a single venue negates the current Federal Government of Nigeria campaign against public gathering of more than 50 people”.
“Information gathered from our foreign partners and their government agencies, Guinness World Record (GWR), Hackathon Tech Challenge and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had clearly indicated that gathering of 50 or more people should be cancelled for eight weeks.
“Against these aforementioned issues, UREC, therefore, wishes to announce the indefinite postponement of our programme, World Record project and Hackathon Tech Challenge, tagged: Kwara-UNILORIN Innovation Hackathon,” Prof. Olaoye said.