{"id":5939,"date":"2018-01-06T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2018-01-06T20:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:09:34","slug":"nigerian-born-arsenal-star-crashes-range-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/nigerian-born-arsenal-star-crashes-range-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink &amp; Drive: Nigerian-born Arsenal Star Crashes \u20ac60,000 Range Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row equal-height\">\n<div class=\"col col-xs-12  col-md-8  item-main\">\n<div class=\"pull-left item-image\">\n<div class=\"img_caption none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption aligncenter\" title=\"Chuba Akpom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nigeriafilms.com\/nfc-image\/ads\/akpoares.jpg\" alt=\"Chuba Akpom\" width=\"548\" height=\"329\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row banner-art-info\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"no-show-mobile article-banner\">\n<div class=\"banner-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"bannergroup\">\n<div class=\"banneritem\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle dispblock\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\">22-year-old Nigerian-born Arsenal FC star, Chuba Akpom has reportedly crashed his 60,000 euro Range Rover automobile while driving drunk.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row article-main\">\n<div class=\"article-content-main col-lg-12 \">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-adds\">Arsenal starlet Chuba Akpom has been banned from driving after crashing his \u00a360,000 Range Rover while drunk on a concoction of \u2018vodka and cranberry juice\u2019, Daily Mail reports.<\/div>\n<section class=\"mcon article-content clearfix\">At around 4.50am on the morning of December 17, the 22-year-old smashed a fence and furniture after losing control of his car and mounting a grass verge near his home in Barnet, North London.<\/p>\n<p>Police followed the trail of destruction and gave Akpom a breath test. After it showed he was above the legal limit, the British-born Nigerian was taken to police station and later charged with drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>But no one told the player\u2019s father \u2013who, after discovering the wreckage the following morning, feared his son had been kidnapped, the Sun claim.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old allayed those concerns by eventually returning home safe in a taxi. But at Willesden Magistrates Court on Monday he was fined \u00a39,350, with \u00a385 costs and disqualified from driving for 17 months after admitting driving the Range Rover with more than double the legal limit of alcohol in his system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis father woke up later and found the crashed car outside the gate with no driver and for a moment he was seriously concerned about what had happened to his son,\u201d Akpom\u2019s lawyer Aki Achillea told the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was about to ring hospitals and the police, fearing his son, being a high-profile footballer, had been abducted so this has affected the family as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has let himself down and made a dreadful mistake for a boy that has always been so disciplined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old committed the offence during a night out partying with friends in London. After the group moved from the West End to a 21st birthday bash at a club in Watford, the striker \u2018stupidly agreed\u2019 to put vodka in two glasses of cranberry juice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis driving was erratic and he was observed by an off-duty police officer. He was parallel to a Shell petrol station and lost control, mounting the grass verge,\u201d prosecutor Zahid Hussain told the court. \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Daily Mail<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22-year-old Nigerian-born Arsenal FC star, Chuba Akpom has reportedly crashed his 60,000 euro Range Rover automobile while driving drunk. Arsenal starlet Chuba Akpom has been banned from driving after crashing his \u00a360,000 Range Rover while drunk on a concoction of \u2018vodka and cranberry juice\u2019, Daily Mail reports. 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