{"id":2833,"date":"2026-01-04T13:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2833\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:47:15","slug":"anthony-joshua-shares-first-update-after-fatal-nigeria-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2833\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua shares first update after fatal Nigeria crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British boxer Anthony Joshua posts his first public message after a car crash in Nigeria that killed two team members, as the driver faces charges.<\/p>\n<p>BRITISH boxer Anthony Joshua has issued his first public update following a fatal car crash in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The incident near Lagos on Monday killed two of his close friends and team members, Sina Ghami and Latif \u2018Latz\u2019 Ayodele.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was injured and hospitalised before being discharged on Wednesday and flying back to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>He posted two images on Instagram on Sunday, sitting with his mother and others, one holding a photo of Ghami.<\/p>\n<p>The former two-time world heavyweight champion captioned the post \u2018My Brothers Keeper\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Nigerian police confirmed the driver, Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, had been charged over the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was a passenger in the vehicle, which struck a stationary truck on a major road.<\/p>\n<p>He was in Nigeria on holiday after his knockout win over Jake Paul in Miami on December 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British boxer Anthony Joshua posts his first public message after a car crash in Nigeria that killed two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[497,1155,2547,122,2548],"class_list":{"0":"post-2833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-joshua","11":"tag-nigeria","12":"tag-update"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}