{"id":81120,"date":"2026-01-03T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81120"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:58:15","slug":"court-adjourns-case-against-joshuas-driver-until-jan-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/03\/court-adjourns-case-against-joshuas-driver-until-jan-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Adjourns Case Against Joshua\u2019s Driver Until Jan 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ogun State Police Command has arraigned the driver involved in the fatal crash that claimed the lives of two close associates of former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua, with the case adjourned until January 20, 2026.<br \/>\nThe driver, Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged on Friday before a Sagamu Magistrate Court, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Oluseyi Babaseyi, confirmed in a statement in Abeokuta. The adjournment was to allow for further legal processes.<br \/>\nKayode was arrested following the December 29, 2025 crash near Danco on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which killed Kevin Latif Ayodele, 36, a British-Nigerian, and Sina Ghami, 36, a British citizen\u2014both members of Joshua\u2019s training team.<br \/>\nPolice said the Lexus SUV, allegedly speeding, suffered a tyre burst while overtaking and rammed into an illegally parked truck loaded with soya beans, killing the two passengers instantly. Joshua and Kayode sustained minor injuries.<br \/>\nInvestigations are ongoing, with police yet to disclose the specific charges but indicating possible reckless driving. A manhunt has also been launched for the fleeing truck driver.<br \/>\nThe next court sitting is expected to clarify the charges and further findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Ogun State Police Command has arraigned the driver involved in the fatal crash that claimed the lives of two close associates of former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua, with the case adjourned until January 20, 2026. The driver, Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged on Friday before a Sagamu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81122,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81120\/revisions\/81122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}