Nigerian police charge driver with 'dangerous driving ' after fatal Joshua crash

[p]Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was also charged with driving without a valid "driver's licence" and "driving without due care and attention, causing bodily harm and damage to property", Oluseyi Babaseyi, a spokesman for the police in Ogun state, told [i]AFP.[/i][/p][p]He was granted a five million naira bail (£2,580) but will remain in detention until he meets bail conditions, Babaseyi said.[/p][embed guid="3f085098-5074-47b0-ae6a-95e9a5f43aaa" url="https://x.com/MatchroomBoxing/status/2005742955370557893" social-type="twitter" /][p]Kayode was driving the boxer and two of his friends, Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami, on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in southwest Nigeria when the Lexus SUV in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck on Monday.[/p][p]Nigerian police and state officials said that Ayodele and Ghami died at the scene, while Joshua and the driver sustained minor injuries.[/p][p]The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun state, where the accident occurred, told [i]AFP[/i] earlier in the week that its preliminary investigations showed that the vehicle was moving at an excessive speed and had burst a tyre before the crash.[/p][p]Kayode is scheduled to appear in court on 20 January.[/p]