Yemi Alade, the popular Nigerian-born musician, has been blocked from entering Canada.
The singer and her music band were denied Canadian visas over concerns that she and her crew would not be able to leave the country after their performance.
According to reports from Le Devoir, a French newspaper published and distributed in Canada, the singer will not perform at a festival’s closing ceremony scheduled for Sunday.
The 33-year-old Afropop star is one of the headliners at the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique.
Suzanne Rousseau, the festival’s co-founder, commented on the development, saying the visa denial was due to financial reasons and fears the group would not leave Canada.
“Eventually we got an answer that the musicians were rejected and that they have to guarantee that they have enough financial means to return to their country.” She said.
Given Yemi’s absence, Suzanne has explained that the singer would have to be replaced at the festival by Sampa The Great, a Zambian-born, Australian-based singer.
Also read a snippet of my previous post;
Prosecutors think Britain’s Pablo Escobar could have around £200 million stashed away as he prepares for his release from prison.
Curtis Warren is reportedly due to leave prison in November this year, once his 13-year sentence is over.
Calling him 'Liverpool's most infamous gangster', the Liverpool Echo reports that prosecutors are wary of a 'murky network of hidden assets' through which he could access money made in the drug trafficking trade.
Sentenced in 2009 to 13 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to smuggle cannabis, Warren insists he has no money left and has previously not paid a confiscation order that would have seen him leave prison years ago.
Back in 2013 prosecutors at Jersey's Royal Court laid out the scope of Warren's money laundering network.
Then-attorney general Howard Sharp QC told the court that the operation included Swiss bank accounts, gold mining enterprises in Guyana, and a property scheme in Turkey.
Warren was ordered to pay £198 million in a confiscation order or spend another decade behind bars after the jurats supported Sharp's case.