Tag: Crowd
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2023: The fallacy of crowd as winning strategy – By Ehichioya Ezomon
If campaign rallies are a winning strategy, former United States President Donald Trump would’ve won the 2020 election in a landslide, to return to the White House. As Trump gathered huge crowds across the U.S., his challenger, Joe Biden, hardly got a couple of thousands in the few times he ventured on the campaign trail.…
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My crowd is bigger than yours – By Chidi Amuta
The crowds of power wear an amorphous but identical face. It does not matter whether they are the Roman plebeians, renegade factions of the Athenian metropole or the rough racist hounds that accompanied Donald Trump to defile the US Capitol on 6th January 2021. They are all roughly the same. Political crowds troop out in…
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Nigerians shun Covid-19 threats, storm NIMC office in Abuja, Lagos in rush for NIN [Video]
Nigerians on Monday shunned threats posed by the second wave of the deadly Coronavirus in their bid to register and obtain the National Identity Number. TheNewsGuru (TNG) obtained visual footages in Abuja and Lagos State of mammoth crowds gathered at the respective offices of the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC. This development is coming few…
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Yuletide: Terrorists may bomb Abuja, other parts of Nigeria where crowds gather – UK, US warn
British and the United States governments have warned their citizens of terrorist groups’ threat to carry out bomb attacks in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, during the Yuletide. In its latest foreign travel advice to British nationals, the country’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that it would raise the terrorism threat alert in Nigeria during…
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JUST IN: Several injured as car rams into crowd outside Natural History Museum in London
There was pandemonium in on Saturday as vehicle driver rammed through a crowd of people outside the Natural History Museum in London’s South Kensington. Many feared injured after the vehicle round through the pedestrians. The police confirmed the incident while noting that the driver of the car had already been arrested. He was pinned to…
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Crowd pelt Venezuela’s President’s convoy with eggs, stones at parade
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s convoy was pelted with objects by members of a crowd at a military parade upon his (the president) return from a trip to Cuba. The incident occurred at San Felix, a town in the southern Bolivar region, during a military parade held to welcome him from the trip. A live television…