Welcome to the theater of the absurd, where time is not a linear progression but a thick, stagnant swamp of bureaucratic indifference. In the latest installment of ‘Why Humanity Deserves an Asteroid,’ the Sagamu Magistrate Court in Ogun State, Nigeria, has decided that the year 2024 is simply too early to deal with the minor inconvenience of a fatal car accident. No, the trial of Adeniyi Kayode, the 46-year-old driver whose vehicle ended the lives of Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami, has been adjourned until February 25, 2026. Yes, you read that correctly. We are now scheduling justice for a time when we might already be living in caves or serving our AI overlords.

Let us pause to admire the sheer, unadulterated laziness required to look at a case involving two deaths and decide that a two-year hiatus is the appropriate response. It is a masterclass in institutional apathy. But of course, this isn't just any traffic accident. This is a story that only finds its way onto the digital scrolls because the victims were 'close friends' of Anthony Joshua, the Nigerian-born boxing sensation. Without the peripheral glow of a man who gets paid millions to punch other men in the face, Latif and Sina would be just two more statistics in a country where the roads are more dangerous than a minefield and the legal system is more clogged than a Lagos sewer during a monsoon.

In our modern, fame-obsessed hellscape, the value of a human life is apparently directly proportional to the number of degrees of separation one has from a celebrity. If these men had been friends with a local plumber or a street vendor, the case file for Adeniyi Kayode would have likely been lost in a stack of unpaid electric bills or used as a coaster for a magistrate’s mid-day stout. But because they once shared a zip code or a training camp with a heavyweight champion, we are treated to the performative solemnity of an adjournment. The court isn't just delaying a trial; it is announcing that the lives lost are worth exactly 24 months of silence.

The driver, Adeniyi Kayode, at 46, finds himself in a special kind of purgatory. He is the protagonist of a tragedy that everyone has already forgotten except for the families of the deceased and the algorithms that need to keep Anthony Joshua's name in the headlines. He exists in the 'Middle Management' of guilt—not rich enough to buy the court’s total amnesia, but not famous enough for the public to care about his due process. He is a footnote in a celebrity news cycle, a ghost waiting for a calendar to catch up with his reality.

And what of the Nigerian judiciary? This is a system that has perfected the art of the 'Adjournment.' In the West, we have the performative outrage of the 'progressive' left and the moronic greed of the 'traditionalist' right, both of whom love to talk about the rule of law while actively subverting it. In Nigeria, they’ve cut out the middleman. They don’t pretend to care; they just stop moving. The Sagamu Magistrate Court isn't trying to be efficient. It isn't trying to be fair. It is simply existing as a monument to the fact that when you have no infrastructure, no security, and no accountability, 'time' is the only thing you have left to waste.

By February 2026, the world will be a different place. Anthony Joshua will likely have been knocked out a few more times or retired to a life of selling overpriced fitness apps. The public will have moved on to the next tragedy, the next celebrity's dog's birthday, or the next global catastrophe. And that is exactly what the system wants. Justice delayed isn't just justice denied; it is justice successfully bored into submission. The court understands that human memory is short, and human outrage is even shorter. If you wait long enough, the pain dulls, the witnesses move away, and the paperwork conveniently disintegrates in the humidity of Ogun State.

This is the ultimate cynicism of the state: the realization that if you stall long enough, the problem eventually solves itself through the sheer passage of time. We live in a world where we can send data across the globe in milliseconds, yet we can’t determine the culpability of a driver in under 700 days. It is a pathetic indictment of our species. We have all the technology to be gods and the temperament of sluggish toddlers. So, mark your calendars for 2026, assuming anyone still remembers how to read a clock by then. Until then, the dead stay dead, the driver stays in limbo, and the boxing world continues to revolve around people who are actually important. Everyone else is just an adjournment waiting to happen.