SLIDESHOW: The Weekend in Pictures

Monday, 25 July 2022 08:42

By Hillary Nnoruka & Olamide Fadoju

Tears. Records. Victories. Defeats. Threats. Hope. Renewal. Recovery. They all happened over the weekend.

The terrorist group, Boko Haram released a video of its fighters flogging the kidnapped victims of the train attack of 28 March.

The group threatened to sell some of them and said it would kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and the Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

The athlete, Tobi Amusan broke a world record in the women’s 100 meters hurdles twice in one night at the World Athletics Championship in Oregon, the US.

Her compatriot, Ese Brume also won a silver medal in the women’s long jump event.

The Super Falcons finished a disappointing fourth at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, where South Africa’s Bayana Bayana won gold.

The presidential candidates of the All progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who are former allies, traded words.

The federal government gave hope that two critical infrastructure projects would be completed before Christmas, and Tems continued her rise on the global entertainment scene with a feature in the soundtrack of the much-anticipated movie, “Wakanda Forever.”

Here’s the Weekend in Pictures: