The South African Consul-General to Nigeria, Bobby Moroe, has clarified that Nigerian singer, Ayra Starr, was initially denied a visa due to the submission of an inappropriate yellow fever certificate. Naija News reports that Moroe, in an interview with Punch, said the visa rejection was not a recent development as portrayed online, but occurred in February 2024. “One of the challenges was that they did not submit an appropriate yellow fever certificate. They submitted the yellow fever certificate of another country when they were supposed to submit the yellow fever certificate of their home country. Moroe also disclosed that visa applications from Nigerians had increased to between 60 and 80 monthly compared with previous years.