A combination of the best photos of the week ending February 28, 2020.
What were the best news photos you came across this week? Here are our picks, ranging from the trial of former People’s Democratic Party spokesman, Olisa Metuh, the announcement of the first COVID-19 patient in Nigeria and the very rare moment Odion Ighalo scored a goal for Manchester United.
A firefighter cools off his head after battling an inferno that gutted a petrol station along Kubwa Expressway in Abuja on Wednesday 26th February 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVFirefighters battling the inferno that gutted a petrol station along Kubwa Expressway in Abuja on Wednesday 26th February, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVFormer PDP spokesman, Mr Olisa Metuh stands inside a dock at the Federal High Court in Abuja on February 25, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVMetuh being taken to the Nigeria Correction Service after a judgement was passed on his case on February the 25th, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/ Channels TVA police truck is stationed at the entrance of Supreme Court of Nigeria in Abuja during the review of Bayelsa APC’s governorship candidate David Lyon over the Bayelsa Election. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVMen of the Nigeria Correction Service departs the Federal High Court in Abuja as they convey convicts to the Kuje Prison in Abuja on February 25, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVThe Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, display the image of the corona virus (covid-19) at a press conference in Abuja on the confirmed case of coronavirus on February 28, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/ Channels TVA soldier checks the body temperature of a visitor to the 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital at Yaba in Lagos, on February 28, 2020. Photo: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFPA Reverend sister marks faithful with ash as Catholics mark the beginning of the Lenten season wearing black to show grievances at the rate of security challenges in Nigeria. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVAn aerial view of catholics as they mark the beginning of the Lenten season wearing black to show grievances at the rate of security challenges in Nigeria. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVDisappointed subscribers of the nationwide Workers Housing Scheme on Monday, February 24, 2020, stormed the headquarters of the NLC, Abuja in protest over FG Nationwide Workers Housing scheme they see as fraud. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVThe disappointed subscribers hold up banners. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TVDemonstrators clash with the police during a protest against Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s government in Vina del Mar, on February 23, 2020, during the Vina del Mar Music Festival. (Photo by Martin BERNETTI / AFP)A couple of revellers enjoy the mud during the “Bloco da Lama”, a mud carnival party, in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on February 22, 2020. – “Bloco da Lama” started in 1986 with teenagers playing with mud and became a traditional event at the historical city of Paraty. Photo by DANIEL RAMALHO / AFPManchester United’s Nigerian striker Odion Ighalo (R) scores his team’s second goal during the UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg football match between Manchester United and Club Brugge at Old Trafford in Manchester, north-west England, on February 27, 2020. Photo: Oli SCARFF / AFP
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