{"id":81942,"date":"2026-01-20T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81942"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:07:25","slug":"court-adjourns-trial-of-anthony-joshuas-driver-to-feb-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/20\/court-adjourns-trial-of-anthony-joshuas-driver-to-feb-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Adjourns Trial of Anthony Joshua\u2019s Driver to Feb. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sagamu Magistrate Court, Ogun State, has adjourned the trial of Adeniyi Kayode, the driver of a Lexus SUV linked to a fatal road accident involving world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua, to February 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kayode, 46, was arraigned on January 2 before Magistrate Olufunilayo Somefun on a four-count charge bordering on dangerous and negligent driving following an accident that reportedly claimed the lives of two persons said to be close to the boxer.<\/p>\n<p>The charges include dangerous driving causing death, reckless and negligent driving, driving without due care and attention resulting in bodily harm and property damage, and driving without a valid national driver\u2019s licence, contrary to provisions of the Federal Highway Act, Cap F:135, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, as applicable in Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the prosecuting counsel, Richard Nigiwe, told the court that only three of the four listed witnesses were present and sought an adjournment to allow the case file to be forwarded to the Office of the Attorney-General through the Department of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>The defence counsel, Abiodun Olalekan, opposed the application, saying the defence was ready to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing arguments from both sides, the court granted the prosecution\u2019s request and adjourned the case to February 25 for further hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Sagamu Magistrate Court, Ogun State, has adjourned the trial of Adeniyi Kayode, the driver of a Lexus SUV linked to a fatal road accident involving world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua, to February 25, 2026. Kayode, 46, was arraigned on January 2 before Magistrate Olufunilayo Somefun on a four-count charge bordering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81942","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\/81942","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=81942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81945,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81942\/revisions\/81945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}