“I have spoken with AJ to personally convey my condolences over the passing of his two close associates, Kevin Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami in the recent accident,” Nigerian president Bola Ahmed Tinubu previously said in a statement. “I wished him a full and speedy recovery, and prayed with him.”

Anthony Joshua, the British boxing star, was discharged from a hospital in Nigeria two days after a car crash killed two of his close friends.