{"id":211469,"date":"2026-01-01T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211469\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:18:09","slug":"anthony-joshua-released-from-hospital-after-crash-nigerian-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211469\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua released from hospital after crash, Nigerian authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"

British boxer Anthony Joshua has been released from hospital, Nigerian authorities said late Wednesday night (local time).<\/p>\n

The two-time former heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist was involved in a fatal road crash near Lagos<\/a> on Monday (local time) which killed two of his close associates and team members.<\/p>\n

Joshua had been under \u201cobservation\u201d at Lagoon Hospital in Lagos while recovering from minor injuries, his promoter said Monday.<\/p>\n

The Lagos state commissioner for information, Gbenga Omotoso, said in a statement on X that Joshua was discharged late Wednesday afternoon after being deemed clinically fit to recuperate from \u201chome\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony and his mother were at the funeral home in Lagos this afternoon to pay their final respects to his two departed friends as they were being prepared for repatriation scheduled for later this evening,” Omotosho said.<\/p>\n

Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele were killed in the crash. Ghami was Joshua\u2019s strength and conditioning coach while Ayodele was a trainer. Just hours before the crash, Joshua and Ayodele posted clips on social media playing table tennis together.<\/p>\n

The accident has elicited growing concerns about road safety in Nigeria, where accidents are common.<\/p>\n

The West African nation recorded 5421 deaths in 9570 road accidents in 2024, according to data by the country\u2019s Federal Road Safety Corps. Its data showed 340 more people were killed in road accidents last year compared to 2023.<\/p>\n

Joshua had recently won<\/a> a bout against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on December 19, a fight he used to improve fitness in a bid to contest future top-flight boxing titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British boxer Anthony Joshua has been released from hospital, Nigerian authorities said late Wednesday night (local time). The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-211469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}