{"id":387656,"date":"2026-01-04T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387656\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:26:08","slug":"anthony-joshua-posts-update-for-first-time-since-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387656\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua posts update for first time since car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since he was injured in a car crash that killed two of his close friends in Nigeria.<\/a><\/p>\n

The British boxer, 36, was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a major expressway near Lagos.<\/p>\n

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

The former two-time heavyweight champion was taken to hospital and discharged on Wednesday before returning to the UK this weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Sunday morning he posted two pictures on Instagram, one which shows him sitting alongside his mother and three women, with one holding a photograph of Ghami.<\/p>\n

The post has the caption: “My Brothers Keeper.”<\/p>\n

Driver Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged<\/a> at Sagamu Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Police sources told the BBC 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since he was injured in a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-387656","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\/387656","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=387656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}