World heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua sent his hometown in Ogun state into a frenzy after he paid an unannounced visit to the palace of Akarigbo of Remo in Sagamu, Ogun state.
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As news filtered in of the presence of renowned son of the soil in the town, residents quickly trooped to the palace to catch a glimpse of him. Anthony Joshua, although British, is of Nigerian descent.
He was born in Watford to a Nigerian mother, Yeta Odusanya, and a British father of Nigerian and Irish descent, Robert, in 1989. The boxer spent some of his early years in Nigeria and was a boarding school student at Mayflower School in Ikenne.
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He made his debut alongside his cousin, Ben Illeyemi, who is also a professional boxer, in 2013. He hails from a royal family in the Sagamu area of Lagos state.
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