{"id":671641,"date":"2026-01-03T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:58:11","slug":"anthony-joshua-boxer-flies-back-to-uk-after-fatal-crash-in-nigeria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/671641\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua: Boxer flies back to UK after fatal crash in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has flown back to the UK after a fatal car crash that <\/b>killed two of his close friends in Nigeria<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 36-year-old was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a major expressway near Lagos on Monday.<\/p>\n

Joshua’s close friends and team members Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele died in the crash. Their funerals will take place at a London mosque on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Joshua was taken to hospital and was discharged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Driver Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged at Sagamu Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Police sources told the BBC<\/a> the charges included causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

The defendant was granted bail of 5m naira (\u00a32,578) and remanded pending his bail conditions being met. The case has been adjourned until 20 January.<\/p>\n

Joshua, who was born in Watford, has family roots in Sagamu – a town in Ogun state, near the crash site.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Olympic champion was on his way to visit relatives for New Year celebrations in the town at the time of the collision, a family member told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The boxer had been spending time in Nigeria after his recent victory over American YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on 19 December.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has flown back to the UK after a fatal car crash that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-671641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115832468573134635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}