Anthony Joshua was involved in a car crash with Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami, his close friends who were also part of his training team, in a horrific car crash in Nigeria on 29 December. While Joshua escaped with minor injuries, Ayodele and Ghami were killed in the accident.<\/p>\n
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua paid a moving tribute on Thursday to the Joshua suffered minor injuries<\/a> in the December 29 crash and after being discharged from hospital he returned to England before attending the funerals of Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami last Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you for all the love and care you have shown my brothers,\u201d\u00a0Joshua posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t even realise how special they are. I\u2019ll just be walking with them and cracking jokes with them, not even knowing God kept me in the presence of great men.<\/p>\n \u201c100 percent it\u2019s tough for me, but I know it\u2019s even tougher for their parents. I have a strong mind, and I believe God knows their hearts. May God have mercy on my brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n Ayodele, the personal trainer of the former two-time unified heavyweight champion, and Ghami, Joshua\u2019s long-time strength and conditioning coach, both died at the scene of the crash on December 29.<\/p>\n Nigerian police charged the driver of the vehicle, Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, with \u201cdangerous driving causing death\u201d.<\/p>\n The accident took place on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in southwest Nigeria when the Joshua, 36, who has family roots in Nigeria, was on holiday in the country following his win over Youtuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Miami on December 19.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADHome<\/a>Sports<\/a>Anthony Joshua pays tribute to friends killed in Nigeria car accident: ‘God kept me in the presence of great men’End of Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua was involved in a car crash with Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami, his close friends who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[498,2086,2085,2087,8034,8035,497,2090,923,8036,122,921],"class_list":{"0":"post-11893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-anthony-joshua-accident","10":"tag-anthony-joshua-car-accident","11":"tag-anthony-joshua-car-crash","12":"tag-anthony-joshua-friends","13":"tag-anthony-joshua-nigeria-car-accident","14":"tag-boxing","15":"tag-boxing-news","16":"tag-latif-ayodele","17":"tag-latif-ayodele-and-sina-ghami","18":"tag-nigeria","19":"tag-sina-ghami"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntwo close friends killed in a car crash in Nigeria<\/a>, labelling them \u201cbrothers\u201d and \u201cgreat men\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nLexus SUV in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n