{"id":12635,"date":"2026-01-09T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:39:09","slug":"anthony-joshua-pays-tribute-to-his-friends-killed-in-nigeria-car-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12635\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua pays tribute to his friends killed in Nigeria car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has paid tribute to his two close friends who were killed in a car accident<\/a> in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Joshua sustained minor injuries in the late-December crash that killed Sina Ghami and Latif \u201cLatz\u201d Ayodele. The vehicle they were traveling in struck a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for all the love and care you have shown my brothers,\u201d Joshua wrote Thursday on Instagram. \u201cI didn\u2019t even realize 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old Briton continued: \u201c100% 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

Ghami was Joshua\u2019s strength and conditioning coach while Ayodele was a trainer.<\/p>\n

Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, was charged<\/a> with dangerous and reckless driving.<\/p>\n

Joshua has family roots in Nigeria and he briefly attended boarding school there as a child.<\/p>\n

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AP boxing: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/boxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has paid tribute to his two close friends who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[137,498,762,2093,122,264,8586],"class_list":{"0":"post-12635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-anthony-joshua","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-lagos","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635","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=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}