{"id":384113,"date":"2026-01-02T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384113\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:36:09","slug":"anthony-joshuas-driver-charged-by-nigerian-police-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/384113\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua’s driver charged by Nigerian police after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The driver of the car involved in the crash that injured Anthony Joshua and killed two people<\/a> has been charged with reckless and dangerous driving, Nigerian police said.<\/p>\n

Adenyi Mobalaji Kayode, 46, was driving the Lexus SUV on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when it collided with a stationary truck. Joshua and the driver suffered minor injuries in the crash while Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, two members of the British-Nigerian boxer’s training team, were killed.<\/p>\n

The Ogun State Police Command issued a statement on Friday to say that the driver was arraigned in Sagamu Magistrate Court on Friday.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the police told AFP said Kayode was charged with “reckless” and “dangerous driving causing death”, driving without a valid driver’s licence, and driving “without due care and attention, causing bodily harm and damage to property.”<\/p>\n

They said he was granted a five million naira bail ($3,500) but will remain in detention until he meets bail conditions.<\/p>\n

Anthony Joshua with\u00a0Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Kayode is due to appear in court on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

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Joshua, a former two-time world heavyweight champion, was discharged from hospital<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ghami, Joshua’s strength and conditioning coach, and Ayodele, a trainer, were both pronounced dead at the scene. Joshua and his mother visited a funeral home in Lagos on Wednesday to pay their final respects.<\/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 boxer had been spending time in Nigeria after his recent victory over Jake Paul on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of the car involved in the crash that injured Anthony Joshua and killed two people has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-384113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}