Anthony Joshua survives deadly road crash along Lagos-Ibadan expressway
FYI, Anthony Joshua was not airlifted from Nigeria, as some unpatriotic citizens, and not a few fame-hungry international netizens, claimed. He was taken from the accident scene to a Nigerian hospital within less than an hour, given world-class treatment, and discharged yesterday, Wednesday, December 31, 2025, and is now at home.
His speedy recovery and recuperation are proof that Lagos, Nigeria, deserves its reputation as a Centre of Excellence and a global hub for health tourism, with almost 2,000 private healthcare facilities and nearly 400 public clinics and hospitals.
And it is not just Anthony Joshua. Please fact-check me: Lagos, Nigeria now attracts thousands of mostly British citizens and residents, and other global visitors, who troop to Nigeria’s commercial capital, as part of the reverse medical tourism industry, for their healthcare needs due to shorter waiting times than in the United Kingdom and most other nations, coupled with the affordability of care, and access to long-term, inexpensive outpatient services.
Nigeria, and specifically Lagos, is returning to the days when King Faisal of Saudi Arabia received his healthcare in Nigeria in the fifties and sixties. Oh, please, by all means, fact-check me!
In recent times, foreigners, such as the American R’nB singer and dancer Jeffrey Daniel of Shalamar and the British journalist Isha Sesay of CNN, have testified that coming to Nigeria for health tourism made the difference in their healthcare journey.
I encourage you to Google their stories.
Those of you who wanted so desperately for this whole incident to end badly for Nigeria have been disappointed, and more disheartenment awaits you in 2026, as Nigeria continues to soar to greater heights.
Especially as the Tax Reform Agenda kicks in today, January 1, 2026, exploding our revenue generation capacity.
So continue to milk that content creator monetisation money by shooting negative stories about the Anthony Joshua crash to feed your delusions about Nigeria.
Nigeria recorded almost 4% GDP growth last year (2025), and we halved our inflation rate from the start of the year. On New Year’s Day, 2025, Nigeria’s inflation rate was 24.48%. As we make New Year’s Day, 2026, our inflation rate is 14.45%.
As long as our economy is growing faster than the economy of the country you live in, the joke is on you!
Happy New Year, all the same!
_Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
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